Sherwood Family History
Sherwood Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire,
around which once stood the famous Sherwood Forest. The place is so
called from Old English scir ‘shire’ or scir
‘bright’ + wudu ‘wood’.Americanized form of some
Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sherwood
Name Distribution of Sherwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sherwood families
 364 - 725  122 - 363 |
 1 - 121  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sherwood families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sherwood census records
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Sherwood Family Origin
Sherwood Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sherwood Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Sherwood families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sherwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sherwood census records
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Military Service by Sherwood
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