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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : habitational name from any of numerous places named Woodhouse; there are examples in Leicestershire, South and West Yorkshire, and Peebleshire, all named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + hūs ‘house’.
  • William Woodhouse, a Jacobite, emigrated from Alnwick in Northumberland, England, to Philadelphia in 1766.

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