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The collingwood Surname

collingwood Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name, probably from Collingwood in Staffordshire, although the surname is now more common on Tyneside. The place name arose from a wood the ownership of which was disputed (from Middle English calenge ‘dispute’, ‘challenge’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of collingwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of collingwood families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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