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Woods: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Same as Goodwin or Gooden, derived from God or good, Sax., and win, conqueror, that is, a conqueror in God, converted or victorious in God. In one of those battles fought between Edmund the Anglo-Saxon, and Canute the Dane, the Danish army being routed and forced to fly, one of their principal captains named Ulf lost his way in the woods. After wandering all night, he met at daybreak a young peasant driving a herd of oxen whom he saluted, and asked hia name. '1 am Godwin, the son of Ulfhoth,' said the young peasant, 'and thou art a Dane.'
Woods Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : WOODS | WOOD
Woods: Place of Origin :  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Norfolk (United Kingdom) |  Surrey (United Kingdom) |  Meath (Ireland) |  Suffolk (United Kingdom)
Woods: Online Family Trees
WOODS Inglaterra, Gran Bretaņa (England, United Kingdom) 1715 - 1715
WOODS Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom) 1593 - 1791
WOODS West Bridgford,Nottingham,Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom) 1620 - 1620
WOODS Inglaterra, Gran Bretaņa (England, United Kingdom) 1715 - 1715
WOODS Marylebone, Londres (London, England, United Kingdom) 1914 - 1914
WOODS Greenock (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1960 - 1960
WOODS Beccles (Suffolk, England, United Kingdom) 1836 - 1836
WOODS Great Yarmouth (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1859 - 1950
WOODS Lowestoft (Suffolk, England, United Kingdom) 1865 - 1865
WOODS Mutford (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1893 - 1893

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Woods: GeneaNet Members
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Woods: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Woods is related to the following famous family trees :
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Woods: Books that contain this surname
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WOODSParis war days : diary of an American g y Charles Inman Barnard,...
Author: Charles Inman Barnard - Published in 1914
... Robert Woods Bliss, First ^catctaiy of the United States Embassy in Paris, September, 1914. ...		 WOODSGenealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire,
Author: Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, ed - Published in 1908
... She was a granddaughter of John Woods, who served in New Hampshire and .Massachusetts dating the Revolutionary war. and of ...
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