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Sherwood One-Name Study
Group.
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of One-Name Studies since 1995
This site is maintained by Phil Sherwood who welcomes enquiries from anyone tracing their Sherwood Genealogy and Lineage world-wide. It covers variants such as Sharwood, Shearwood, Sherrard, Sh*r*d etc. as in the Introduction Page. E-mail: To join our group (which is free) click here.
| Sherwood - An ancient English surname derived from the Old English elements 'Scir' meaning 'bright' or 'shire', and 'Wude' - a wood. Thus the name may have applied to a 'dweller in the bright wood' or a 'dweller in a wood near a Shire or County boundary'. It is thus of topographic origin (like the surname Wood) and may have sprung up independently in several regions at the same time. Also the name of a forest and a place in Nottinghamshire, where the surname could be of toponymic origin. | 
"Softly over Sherwood the south wind blows,All the heart of England hid in every rose." Alfred Noyes (Victorian Poet) (The Crest is from Fairbairn's 'Crests' ) |
| For help with Sherwood families in: America contact Geoff Sherwood Australia contact Margaret Love Canada contact Ken Parker The UK, Ireland & Rest of World contact Phil Sherwood |
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Our extracts from the Births, Marriages & Deaths Indexes for England & Wales from 1837 can be searched by clicking here (courtesy of the GoONS electronic archive).
Sherwood
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News of Sherwood Familes
My Sherwood
Ancestry in Kent
Sherwood Family Bibles - The remarkable
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American Civil
War 1861-1865 : in the Members Room.
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