Woods Family History
Woods Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived in
the woods (see Wood).Irish: English name adopted as a
translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see
Quill), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú
Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has
also been mistranslated Cox, as if formed with coileach
‘cock’, ‘rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woods
Name Distribution of Woods Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woods families
 2,761 - 5,520  921 - 2,760 |
 1 - 920  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woods families
|
255 - 507 86 - 254 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woods census records
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Woods Family Origin
Woods Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Woods Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Woods Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Woods census records
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Military Service by Woods
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