The underwood Surname

underwood Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near or in a wood, from Middle English under + wude, wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and the former county of Ayrshire (from Old English under + wudu).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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underwood Family Facts

Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Emigration Year (US)Emigration Year (AU)Ports of Departure Occupations

Distribution of underwood Families in the US in 1920

Number of underwood families

236-470

79-235

1-78

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Underwoods from Liverpool/Manchester area	__tracy__	0
LEVI UNDERWOOD BORN OCTOBER 21, 1834 IN VERMILLION COUNTY ILLINOIS	MORGANCHICK2004	3
UNDERWOOD Ella May	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD Andrew Jackson 1849 1916	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD Andrew Jackson 1849 1916	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD Sarah H ZINN 1854 1931 wife of A J Underwood	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD Mattie Lee 1897 1955	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD O S - 1974	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD Drue 1881 1915	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
UNDERWOOD Andrew Jackson 1849 1916	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0

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