Bidwell Family History
Bidwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bedwell (Essex Hertfordshire) Bedlar's Green (Essex) Bidwell (Bedfordshire Northamptonshire Devon Somerset) or Biddles Farm (Buckinghamshire) all of which were named as ‘the spring or stream in a shallow valley’ from Old English bydewelle (composed of the elements byde(n) ‘tub’ + well(a) ‘spring stream’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022