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HAGWOOD Family History

Recorded as Hagwood, Hagworth, and Haggerwood, this is an English surname. It is locational and apparently from a now 'lost' medieval place, or just possibly it is a short form of the Lincolnshire village name of Hagworthingham. This means the place (ham) of the people ( -ing) who lived by the hawthorn (haega) wood (-wurth). The surname however spelt, has effectively the same translation although strictly speaking it would seem to have the more definitive meaning of a hawthorn orchard. In olden times the hawthorn was commercially grown for its 'haws,' which were used for winter food.