Atwater History & Genealogy; Volume V, The Great Adventure, 1456-1956Atwater History and Genealogy, Volume V, The Great Adventure By Charles Hobart Attwater The Attwater names belongs to a large class of English family names where the personal name of a man qualified for identification by a description of his home, at the hill, etc., became fixed as a surname for his descendants. The earliest mention of the name Attwater found in England appears in the chartulary of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, Godfried atte