genealogy of Drumwright?

Question

My friend was just wondering where her surname came from and or what it means???

surname: Drumwright

Thanks

Answer 1

It is a combination name... Irish: variant spelling of Drum 1.
German: from Middle Low German drum ‘lump of wood’ (Middle High German trum), used as a nickname for an uncouth man.

Drumm/ Drummond (Origin Gaelic) Locality From Druim, the back, and monadh, mountain, a name of place--the back of the mountain.


Wright (English, Scottish, and northern Irish): occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.
Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.

Answer 2

There are a ton of genealogy websites that can your friend. Try ancestry.com, familysearch.org, genealogy.com, rootsweb.com. If your friend knows an ancestor (such as grandparent or great grandparen) she can look for on one of these sites, it'll help more.