Wadsworth Family History
Wadsworth Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Wadsworth near Halifax, West
Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Wæddi +
worð ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wadsworth
Name Distribution of Wadsworth Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wadsworth families
 1,257 - 2,512  420 - 1,256 |
 1 - 419  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wadsworth families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wadsworth census records
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Wadsworth Family Origin
Wadsworth Emigration Information (US)
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Wadsworth Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wadsworth census records
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