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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,353,096 Historical Documents with Woods on Ancestry
- 1,904,408 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,221,102 Census and Voter Lists
- 212,825 Military Records
- 113,858 Immigration Records
- 2,900,903 Member Trees
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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
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255 - 507 86 - 254 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woods 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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