When Enos Wood was born in 1791, in North Hero, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States, his father, Enos Wood, was 30 and his mother, Asenath Hazen, was 28. He died in 1896, at the age of 105.
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English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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