Thomas Harewood Woodwark was born in 1811, in Danby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of George Woodwark. He married Sarah Smith on 23 September 1837, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Glaisdale, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Ruswarp, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died on 28 October 1883, in Whitby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72, and was buried in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
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