Beswetherick Family History

Seemingly originating as a variant of a surname Bos- Beswarthack from the place-name Bosvathick in Constantine (Cornwall). The surname is found in the Falmouth area in the mid-seventeenth century and in mid-Cornwall (especially Luxulyan and Lostwithiel) in the eighteenth.

Beswetherick is a late and irregular variant of Beswarthack perhaps partly under the influence of the unrelated surname Petherick. The place-name is from Cornish bos ‘dwelling’ + guarthek ‘cattle’.