Westwood Family History
Westwood Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places
named Westwood, from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu
‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Westwood
Name Distribution of Westwood Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Westwood families
 910 - 1,818  304 - 909 |
 1 - 303  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Westwood families
|
67 - 132 23 - 66 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Westwood census records
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Westwood Family Origin
Westwood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Westwood Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Westwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Westwood census records
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Military Service by Westwood
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