When William Winslow Greenwood was born on 21 May 1825, in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, William Greenwood Jr., was 33 and his mother, Betsey Jaquith Needham, was 36. He married Sarah Abigail Hardy on 2 April 1850, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. He died on 16 December 1919, in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Graniteville Cemetery, Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.
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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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