Woodhead Family History
Woodhead Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various minor
places named Woodhead, for example in West Yorkshire and Strathmore,
from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + heafod ‘head(land)’,
‘top’, ‘extremity’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woodhead
Name Distribution of Woodhead Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woodhead families
 1,774 - 3,546  592 - 1,773 |
 1 - 591  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woodhead families
|
22 - 41 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woodhead census records
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Woodhead Family Origin
Woodhead Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Woodhead Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Woodhead Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Woodhead census records
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Military Service by Woodhead
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