Dinwiddie Family History
Dinwiddie Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name for someone from Dinwoodie near
Dumfries. The place name is of uncertain derivation; it is first
recorded in 1296 in the form Dinwithie, Dunwythye (then
later 1482 Donwethy, 1503 Dunwedy, 1578
Dumwiddie) and is probably named with British words that are
ancestors of Welsh din ‘forest’ + gwydd ‘shrubs’,
‘bushes’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dinwiddie
Name Distribution of Dinwiddie Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dinwiddie families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dinwiddie families
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20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dinwiddie Family Origin
Dinwiddie Emigration Information (US)
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Dinwiddie Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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