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blackwood Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Dumfries, Strathclyde, and Yorkshire, named Blackwood, from Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ + wudu ‘wood’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The blackwood name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the blackwood family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of blackwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of blackwood families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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