Plew Family History

German: perhaps a variant of Plewe, a habitational name from a place so named in Brandenburg.

English: variant of Plaw, a topographic name for someone who lived by a place where sports and games were played, from Middle English plaghe, plawe, pleie, ploghe, plowe (Old English plega, plæga, plaga) ‘play, sport, game, merriment’ and by transference ‘play-place’.

English: northern variant of Plow, itself a variant of Plough ‘plow’.