Harwood Family History
- Harwood Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places, for example in the Scottish Borders and in Cheshire, Lancashire, Lothian, Northumberland, and North and West Yorkshire, called Harwood or Harewood from Old English har ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’ + wudu ‘wood’. This name has also become established in Ireland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,071,281 Historical Documents with Harwood on Ancestry
- 389,982 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 247,976 Census and Voter Lists
- 28,206 Military Records
- 21,505 Immigration Records
- 383,612 Member Trees
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Number of Harwood families
 938 - 1,873  313 - 937 |
 1 - 312  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harwood families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Harwood census records
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- England (266)
- Great Britain (37)
- Ireland (30)
- Great Britain;England (4)
- Scotland (3)
- England;London (1)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Harwood census records
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