Woodcock Family History
Woodcock Name Meaning
from Middle English woodcock (a compound of Old
English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock’, ‘bird’), a bird that
is notoriously easy to catch, hence a nickname for a stupid or
gullible person.variant of Woodcott, a habitational name
from any of various places named with Old English wudu ‘wood’ +
cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’, as for example Woodcott in Cheshire
and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire,
Warwickshire, and Shropshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woodcock
Name Distribution of Woodcock Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woodcock families
 95 - 187  32 - 94 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Woodcock families
|
959 - 1,916 320 - 958 |
1 - 319 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woodcock families
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Woodcock Family Origin
Woodcock Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Woodcock
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Woodcock Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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