Woodhouse Family History
Woodhouse Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places
named Woodhouse; there are examples in Leicestershire, South and West
Yorkshire, and Peebleshire, all named from Old English wudu
‘wood’ + hus ‘house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woodhouse
Name Distribution of Woodhouse Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woodhouse families
 57 - 112  20 - 56 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Woodhouse families
|
758 - 1,513 253 - 757 |
1 - 252 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woodhouse families
|
31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woodhouse census records
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Woodhouse Family Origin
Woodhouse Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Woodhouse
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Woodhouse Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Woodhouse census records
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Woodhouse Civil War Service Records
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