Chitwood Family History
Chitwood Name Meaning
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
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Name Distribution of Chitwood Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chitwood families
 42 - 81  15 - 41 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Chitwood Family Origin
Chitwood Immigration Information
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Chitwood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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