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My maiden name, Dew, has several meanings and origins. From Ancestry.com "English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Eu in Seine-Maritime France with fused preposition d(e). Topographic name perhaps from Middle English deu deaw dywe ‘dew’ probably used in the sense ‘damp ground’ or ‘dew pond’. Welsh: nickname‘stout thickset’ Welsh tew a soft-mutated form of dew. In some cases, the name may arise from a North Welsh pronunciation of du ‘black dark swarthy’; however this is normally Anglicized as Dye"

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