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woodland Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone living in an area of woodland, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + land ‘land’, or a habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Kent, and Somerset, named with these elements.

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woodland Family Facts

Distribution of woodland Families in the US in 1920
Number of woodland families
 48-94
 17-47		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 81 - Messages: 293
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Woodland DNA rickbain311 9
Woodland LadonnaThomason 3
Richard Woodland Robert Boon 3
WOODLAND Vera and Paul C t42Moore 0
Information on John Woodland Chris Bowers 2
Woodland-Maryland and Virginia JudyNeel22 9
Woodland Family Records Janet Chadwick 9
Somerset Co, MD abt 1700-1800 also Gloucester Co, VA & Kent Co, MD BJ Allred 2
somerset woodlands harrywoodland566 0
John Coles sister Elizabeth (Woodland) rickbain311 2
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