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Surname Meanings:-

GIBSON:-
Definition: A patronymic name meaning "son of Gibb," which in Middle English was a familiar 
term for a cat.

Surname Origin: English, Scottish
 Alternate Surname Spellings: GIBBS, GIBBES

WELDON:-
English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire called Weldon, from Old English 
well(a) ‘spring’, stream’ + dūn ‘hill’.

BRITCHER:-
English: variant of Bracher (see Brach).South German: variant of Britsch

JARVIS:-
English: from the Norman personal name Gervase, composed of the Germanic element gari, ger 
‘spear’ + a second element of uncertain meaning and original form. The name was borne by a 
saint, martyred under the Roman Emperor Domitian, who became one of the patrons of Milan.

CLARK:-
English: occupational name for a scribe or secretary, originally a member of a minor religious 
order who undertook such duties. The word clerc denoted a member of a religious order, from Old 
English cler(e)c ‘priest’, reinforced by Old French clerc. Both are from Late Latin clericus, 
from Greek klerikos, a derivative of kleros ‘inheritance’, ‘legacy’, with reference to the 
priestly tribe of Levites (see Levy) ‘whose inheritance was the Lord’. In medieval Christian 
Europe, clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname 
could become established. In the Middle Ages it was virtually only members of religious orders 
who learned to read and write, so that the term clerk came to denote any literate man.