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chitwood Name Meaning and History

English: variant spelling of Chetwode, a habitational name from a place in Buckinghamshire named Chitwood, from Celtic ced ‘wood’, with the tautological addition of Old English wudu when the old name was no longer understood.

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

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

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Distribution of chitwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of chitwood families
 42-81
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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