English: habitational name from Bathurst in the parish of
Warbleton, Sussex, named with the Old English personal name
Bada (a short form of the various compound names formed with
beadu ‘battle’) + Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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