Dewer Family History
Dewer Name Meaning
see Dewar . perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *dewer ‘dweller at the damp or wet place’ (Middle English *dewe Old English *dīewe + -er). This is a topographic surname of a type that is characteristic of Surrey Sussex and Kent. It is equivalent to atte Dewe ‘at the dewe’ attested in John and Robert
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016