Origin: According to the family lore, it comes from a town in Germany, Bardowiek, though I am uncertain how far back we have to go to find the ancestor who originated from the town. Variations: Bordewick and Bordewich, but also Bordevig ...
A few miles inland, though, are the first signs of previous times: signs commemorating the site of the razed village of Bardowiek, inhabited since the middle ages but "destroyed from 1977 to 1989 by the German Democratic Republic [East ...
