When Richard Greenwood was born in November 1733, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Greenwood, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Sutcliffe, was 35. He died about 1780, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 48.
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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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