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hayward Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for an official who was responsible for protecting land or enclosed forest from damage by animals, poachers, or vandals, from Middle English hay ‘enclosure’ (see Hay 1) + ward ‘guardian’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hayward Families in the US in 1920
Number of hayward families
 163-323
 55-162
 1-54
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Haywards of Ontario 1876 to Present bgreene189 1
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George Heard - California casperthedog 0
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Daniel Hayward in Michigan psmh1 2
Haywards from Walsall. UK - USA casperthedog 0
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