Woodbury Family History
Woodbury Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, notably in
Devon, called Woodbury, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ +
byrig, dative of burh ‘fortified place’, or from either
of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and
Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire place name is from Old English
wudu + burh, while Woodborough in Wiltshire is named
with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woodbury
Name Distribution of Woodbury Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woodbury families
 30 - 57  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Woodbury Family Origin
Woodbury Emigration Information (US)
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Woodbury Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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