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Origin / History of the Strudwick Name Records indicate the surname Strudwick is of two-fold origin: an occupational name from the Old English Stodwik meaning 'one employed at the stud or dairy-farm'; and a habitation name from an unidentified minor place, so called from the Old English Strod meaning ‘damp land’ and wick meaning ‘dairy-farm’. Most of the place-names that yield surnames are usually of small communities, villages, hamlets, some so insignificant that they are now lost to the map, and when villages were cleared the dispossessed inhabitants fled to the nearest city. It is believed that this village, which appeared in various early spellings including Strodwick and Strodewick, was cleared for sheep farming in the 17th Century. Some seven thousand such sites are believed to have disappeared since the 13th Century, mainly as a result of agricultural clearance, but in a minority of cases, from plague or civil war. When villages were cleared the dispossessed inhabitants fled to the nearest city and, if possible, London, certainly from the early part of the 17th Century the name is widely in and around London. In its home county of Sussex the recordings are rare, but include: Elizabeth Strudwike, she married Nicholas Brushant, at Harting, Sussex 1584; William Strudwiecke, who married Margerv Colebroke at Midhurst in 1594; and Mary Strudwych, christened at Terwick, Sussex, 1605. Other instances of the name include: Roger Strudwick of the County of Yorkshire, in the year 1210; Agnes Stredgwick of Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379; Swithin Strodewick who registered at Oxford University in 1571; and Francis Strode of County Devon, who enrolled there in 1607. This surname is also spelt Stroudwick and Stroud.
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