Woodcock Family History
Woodcock Name Meaning
from Middle English woodcock (a compound of Old
English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock’, ‘bird’), a bird that
is notoriously easy to catch, hence a nickname for a stupid or
gullible person.variant of Woodcott, a habitational name
from any of various places named with Old English wudu ‘wood’ +
cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’, as for example Woodcott in Cheshire
and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire,
Warwickshire, and Shropshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woodcock
Name Distribution of Woodcock Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woodcock families
 959 - 1,916  320 - 958 |
 1 - 319  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woodcock families
|
19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woodcock census records
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Woodcock Family Origin
Woodcock Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Woodcock Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Woodcock Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Woodcock census records
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Military Service by Woodcock
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