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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : habitational name from any of numerous places named Westwood, from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu ‘wood’.
  • William Westwood was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.

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