When Maria Greenwood was christened on 1 June 1601, in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England, her father, Abel Greenwood, was 15 and her mother, Elizabeth Mitchell, was 13. She died in 1602, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Greenwood Lee in Heptonstall (Yorkshire), from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably also of the same German surname.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünwald (see Grunwald ), and of French Boisvert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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