Heywood Family History
Heywood Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from a place near
Manchester, so named from Old English heah ‘high’ +
wudu ‘wood’. There is also a place in Wiltshire so called, from
Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ + wudu. Compare
Haywood, although this is probably 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Heywood
Name Distribution of Heywood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heywood families
 1,687 - 3,372  563 - 1,686 |
 1 - 562  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Heywood families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heywood census records
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Heywood Family Origin
Heywood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Heywood Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Heywood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Heywood census records
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Military Service by Heywood
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