Woodhouse Family History
Woodhouse Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places
named Woodhouse; there are examples in Leicestershire, South and West
Yorkshire, and Peebleshire, all named from Old English wudu
‘wood’ + hus ‘house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woodhouse
Name Distribution of Woodhouse Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woodhouse families
 758 - 1,513  253 - 757 |
 1 - 252  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woodhouse families
|
31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woodhouse census records
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Woodhouse Family Origin
Woodhouse Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Woodhouse families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Woodhouse Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Woodhouse families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Woodhouse Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Woodhouse census records
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Military Service by Woodhouse
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