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The woodman Surname

woodman Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward), or topographic name for someone who lived in the woods.
  2. possibly from the Old English personal name Wudumann.

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

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

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Distribution of woodman Families in the US in 1920
Number of woodman families
 129-256
 44-128		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 150 - Messages: 386
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Thomas Woodman rustyred180 0
Woodman Family - New Gloucester, Maine whaskell66 0
Parentage of Jane Woodman, b 1743, m Benjamin Jackman? SteveCarter 0
Lydia WOODMAN Patricia L Danby 35
Woodmans in Washburn, Armstrong County, Texas scorlock 0
Olivenda WOODMAN NormanBuckman 0
Woodman of Jackson County, MI - Ancestors & Descendants GeneResearcher 0
woodmans of Morchard Bishop Devon England ShaunWhitton 2
Ellinwood Woodman TPeterman 0
Selden James Woodman TPeterman 1
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