Fergen meaning | Last name Fergen origin

Fergen is variant form of the Verge. One who tilled a verge or yardland which is from fifteen to thirty acres; one who had sworn fealty to his lord; dweller near a boundary.

Variant form of Werge. The same as Worge - A corruption of Worth - A very usual termination for family names, as Langworth, Ainsworth, Whitworth, Hepworth . It is "possibly identical with the South German wörth; North German wuurt; a plot of ground surrounded with water, but elevated above it, or secured with dykes or piles. It has probably the same meaning as the Low German worthe, a protected, enclosed homestead." as per Leo's Anglo-Saxon Local Nomencalture "A nook of land, generally a nook lying between two rivers." says Halliwell. In some places it would seem to mean a forest, and sometimes a road or public way. "Whether originally land, closes, or farms, worths were acquired properties. The old expression, 'What is he worth?' in those days meant, 'Has he land? Possesses he real property? If he had secured a Worth to himself he was called a worthy person, and in consequence had worship, i.e., due respect shewn him. A north was the reward of the free; and per-chance the fundamentals of English freedom were primarily connected with such apparently trivial matters, and produced such a race of worthies as the proud Greeks and haughty Romans might not have been ashamed of." From a lecture by J. Just of Bury, Lancaster

The name is ancient in Sussex. Robertus de Wyrche occurs in a deed of 6. Edward II. The manor of Worth or Werth, in the parishes of Brightling and Burwash, became Wercke, and the lands of which it was composed are now known as Great and Little Worge

It was formerly written Wearg, Wirge, etc.