Fleetwood Family History
Fleetwood Name Meaning
English: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified
place named with Old English fleot ‘stream’, ‘estuary’ +
wudu ‘wood’. The place of this name in Lancashire got its name
in the 19th century from its founder, Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, and
is not the source of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fleetwood
Name Distribution of Fleetwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fleetwood families
 172 - 341  58 - 171 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fleetwood families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fleetwood census records
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Fleetwood Family Origin
Fleetwood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fleetwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fleetwood census records
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Military Service by Fleetwood
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