When Lewis Fenix Woody was born on 2 August 1854, in Meta, Osage, Missouri, United States, his father, Davis Sparrell Woody Sr., was 42 and his mother, Parthenia Pauline Isbell, was 35. He died on 6 August 1854, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Vienna, Maries, Missouri, United States.
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English:
from Middle English wode ‘wood’ + heie ‘enclosure’ (Old English wudu + (ge)hæg). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by an enclosure in a wood, or habitational, for a person from a place so named, such as Woodhey Green in Faddiley (Cheshire). Also possibly from East Woodhay (Hampshire) and West Woodhay (Berkshire), apparently named with Old English wīd ‘wide, broad’ as the initial element, confused with early Old English widu ‘wood’, and so too with Old English wudu.
nickname from Middle English wodi or some other derivative of Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd), perhaps formed on the analogy of, for example, Middle English mody (see Moody ). Compare Wood 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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