The homewood Surname
homewood Name Meaning and History
English (Kent and Sussex): habitational name from any of various
places of this name, in particular one in the parish of Perching,
Sussex, recorded as Homwood in about 1280; there were others in
Chailey and Forest Row in Sussex. All are probably named from Middle
English home ‘homestead’, ‘manor’ + wode ‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| John and Elizabeth Homewood of North Cray Kent | Mary | 1 |
| Homewood Family Tree | Dean Homewood | 18 |
| Photo: Grandchildren of Isaac Hall of Fayette, Iowa 1900 |
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lorrainewebb110
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| Homewood family tree |
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| John Homewood in Kent | Marjorie E. Stintzi | 4 |
| James Homewood |
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| 9 |
| Harriett Homewood mar Richard Fredrick Chappell |
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