Heywood Family History
Heywood Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from a place near
Manchester, so named from Old English heah ‘high’ +
wudu ‘wood’. There is also a place in Wiltshire so called, from
Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ + wudu. Compare
Haywood, although this is probably not the source of the
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Heywood Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heywood families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Heywood families
|
1,687 - 3,372 563 - 1,686 |
1 - 562 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Heywood families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Heywood Family Origin
Heywood Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Heywood
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Heywood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Heywood Civil War Service Records
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