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Norwood Surname Distribution Maps
Here you will find maps of the United States showing the ratio of Norwoods found in each state for the year given. These maps are the only ones containing data for the surname Norwood. When you get to the site, you can search for other surnames by simply changing the surname in the URL address at the top of your browser. Have fun.
Norwoods in the 1850 Census
Name Distribution in the U.S.--1990
From the U.S. Census Bureau Name Files
Based on a sample population of approx. 6 million.
The surname NORWOOD ranked 1,262nd among all surnames in the United States: 0.010 percent of the sample possessed the surname NORWOOD; 46.223 percent of the sample population was covered by the surname NORWOOD and all names that ranked higher in the list.
By contrast, the surname SMITH, which ranked number one on the list, was possessed by 1.006 percent of the sample population.
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CANADA
Loyalist Descendants of Francis Norwood
of Gloucester, Massachusetts
Go to The Francis Norwood Page
On page 199 of The Norwoods III, Mrs. Callam lists the following Norwoods identified as grantees in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada:
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James Norwood | (Capt. William, Francis, Francis (imm.)) |
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Susanah Norwood | (Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.)) |
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Judith Norwood | (Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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Francis Norwood | (Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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Lucy Norwood | (Francis, Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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John Norwood | (Caleb, Joshua, Francis (imm.))
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Jonathan Norwood | (Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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Jonathan Norwood | (Jonathan, Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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Ebenezer Norwood | (Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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Samuel Norwood | (Jonathan, Francis, Francis (imm.))
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The source of Mrs. Callam's knowledge is Grace Hellen Mowat's The Diverting History of a Loyalist Town (Brunswick Press, Fredericton). Most of the people named were descendants of Francis Norwood, Jr. (b. 1666), the Quaker who married Mary Stephens in 1693 over the objections of her family and under the accusations of her brother that Mary had been bewitched by the Norwoods. The first named, James, was Francis, Jr.'s grandson, son of Capt. William Norwood (1708-1781), "a fisherman of Goose Cove," and Judith Woodbury. This James married cousin Susanah (1744-1790), the second named and the daughter of Jonathan Norwood (1712-1791), another son of Francis, Jr., and Elizabeth Davis of Newbury. Judith (1746-1808), Susanah's sister, the next named, married James after Susanah died. Both James and Judith apparently kept diaries, and Judith is the same one named on the plaque on the Seven Acres house built by Francis Norwood the immigrant--"Judith the Gracious, Judith the Bountiful." The next named, Francis (1737-?), was Judith and Susanah's eldest brother, and Lucy Norwood (1765-?) was his daughter by his first wife, Anna Lee of Manchester, Mass. Lucy married John Norwood (1766-1848), son of Caleb Norwood, the son of old Joshua. The first named Jonathan Norwood (1740-1799) was another brother of Susanah and Judith, and the second his son. Ebenezer Norwood was the youngest son of Jonathan (1712-1791), and Samuel Norwood (1754-?), the tenth child and third to the last son.
In 1883, the school register for the Summer Hill School in the Parish of Hampstead, Queens Co., NB, included a seven-year-old Andrew Norwood (A Time There Was: Petersville and other abandoned settlements in Queens Co., NB, 1815-1953, by Marion Gilchrist Reicker, 1984).
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Norwoods in the 1871 Ontario Census
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