Collingwood Family History
- Collingwood Name Meaning
- English: habitational name, probably from Collingwood in Staffordshire, although the surname is now more common on Tyneside. The place name arose from a wood the ownership of which was disputed (from Middle English calenge ‘dispute’, ‘challenge’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Collingwood families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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