Wood Family History
Wood Name Meaning
mainly a topographic name for someone who
lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a
woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old
English wudu).nickname for a mad, eccentric, or
violent person, from Middle English wod ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’
(Old English wad), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire
1221.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wood
Name Distribution of Wood Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wood families
 2,431 - 4,859  811 - 2,430 |
 1 - 810  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wood families
|
10,285 - 20,568 3,429 - 10,284 |
1 - 3,428 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wood families
|
796 - 1,589 266 - 795 |
1 - 265 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wood census records
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Wood Family Origin
Wood Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wood
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Wood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wood census records
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Wood Civil War Service Records
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