CONWAY

(origin: Br. and Celtic. Local) From a river of that name in Wales, which issues from a lake in Merionethshire, and flows through a fertile vale of the same name, and enters the Irish Sea, at Aberconway; from Con, head, chief, and wy, a river.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

CONWAY.* A pedigree of the Irish Conways derives them fi'om the Conwaj's of Worcestershire, whose lineage was deduced from Sir William Conais, High Constable of England at the time of the Conqueror. D'Alton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.