English: variant spelling of Chetwode, a habitational name
from a place in Buckinghamshire named Chitwood, from Celtic
ced ‘wood’, with the tautological addition of Old English
wudu when the old name was no longer understood. adm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
200,981
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chitwood
Find out where people with the family name Chitwood lived before coming to
the United States. Using Ancestry, you can search through
passenger arrival records, naturalization records, border crossings, emigration
records, passport applications, and even convict transportation records.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Chitwood immigration records
You can find out when most of the Chitwood families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Chitwood birth and death records
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates,
death dates, addresses and more.