Harwood Family History
Harwood Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places,
for example in the Scottish Borders and in Cheshire, Lancashire,
Lothian, Northumberland, and North and West Yorkshire, called Harwood
or Harewood from Old English har ‘gray’ or hara
‘hare’ + wudu ‘wood’. This name has also become established in
Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Harwood
Name Distribution of Harwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harwood families
 938 - 1,873  313 - 937 |
 1 - 312  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harwood families
|
18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Harwood census records
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Harwood Family Origin
Harwood Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Harwood Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Harwood families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Harwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Harwood census records
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Military Service by Harwood
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