Leatherwood Family History
Leatherwood Name Meaning
English: perhaps a deliberate alteration of Leatherhead, a
habitational name from Leatherhead in Surrey, which is named from
Celtic led ‘gray’ + rïd ‘ford’, or alternatively a
habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old
English hlið ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Leatherwood Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leatherwood families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Leatherwood families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Leatherwood Family Occupations
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