Underwood Family History
Underwood Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near
or in a wood, from Middle English under + wude,
wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name from any of various places
so named, for example in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and the former
county of Ayrshire (from Old English under + wudu).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Underwood
Name Distribution of Underwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Underwood families
 710 - 1,418  237 - 709 |
 1 - 236  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Underwood families
|
26 - 49 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Underwood census records
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Underwood Family Origin
Underwood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Underwood Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Underwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Underwood census records
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Military Service by Underwood
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