Heywood Family History
- Heywood Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Manchester, so named from Old English heah ‘high’ + wudu ‘wood’. There is also a place in Wiltshire so called, from Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ + wudu. Compare Haywood, although this is probably not the source of the surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 514,275 Historical Documents with Heywood on Ancestry
- 247,030 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 103,338 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,648 Military Records
- 15,534 Immigration Records
- 136,725 Member Trees
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Number of Heywood families
 1,687 - 3,372  563 - 1,686 |
 1 - 562  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Heywood families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heywood census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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