Last Name GARTHSIDE

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Meaning Local: At the garth-side, i.e. living at the side of the garth, the yard or orchard. This last name first dropped the 'h,' secondly the 't,' and is now almost universally Garside. 'In the reign of Edward I lived Sir Baldwin Teutonicus, ... who granted to Sir Robert de Holland, in free marriage with Joan, his daughter, all his lands in Butterworth, the Cleggs, Garthside, Akedene, Holynworth, and Halght in Rochdale' (Baines'Lancashire). Garthside lay in Crompton, between Rochdale and Oldham. The surname arose there. The full form recently existed in Liverpool. Probably it was a modern restoration.
Origin English, Irish



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