Greenwood Family History
Greenwood Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a dense
forest, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’,
or a habitational name from a minor place so named, as for example
Greenwood in Heathfield, East Sussex.English translation
of Ashkenazic Jewish Grünholz, an ornamental compound of
German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably of
German Grünwald (see Gruenwald).English translation of French Boisvert.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Greenwood
Name Distribution of Greenwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Greenwood families
 5,812 - 11,622  1,938 - 5,811 |
 1 - 1,937  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Greenwood families
|
21 - 40 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Greenwood census records
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Greenwood Family Origin
Greenwood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Greenwood Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Greenwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Greenwood census records
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Military Service by Greenwood
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