Last name: WOODWARD
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WOODWARD : This last name is indexed 324,247 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WOODWARD : English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian protector’).
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