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dinwiddie Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name for someone from Dinwoodie near Dumfries. The place name is of uncertain derivation; it is first recorded in 1296 in the form Dinwithie, Dunwythye (then later 1482 Donwethy, 1503 Dunwedy, 1578 Dumwiddie) and is probably named with British words that are ancestors of Welsh din ‘forest’ + gwydd ‘shrubs’, ‘bushes’.

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

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

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Distribution of dinwiddie Families in the US in 1920
Number of dinwiddie families
 32-61
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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