Horwood Family History
Horwood Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Great and Little Horwood in
Buckinghamshire, named from Old English horu ‘dirty’, ‘muddy’ +
wudu ‘wood’, or from Horwood in Devon, which may be of the same
derivation or may have Old English har ‘gray’ as the first
element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Horwood
Name Distribution of Horwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Horwood families
 235 - 467  79 - 234 |
 1 - 78  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Horwood families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Horwood census records
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Horwood Family Origin
Horwood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Horwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Horwood census records
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Military Service by Horwood
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