When Caroline Greenwood was born on 20 April 1839, in Morton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Greenwood, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Lockwood, was 37. She married Lawson Clayton on 22 December 1860, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Bingley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died on 9 August 1882, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, 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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