Meaning of "Henwood"

Henwood

English: habitational name from any of various places so named, as for example Henwood in Cornwall, in Linkinhorne parish, which is named from Old English henn ‘hen’, ‘wild bird’ + wudu ‘wood’, or Hen Wood in Wootton, Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), which is named from Old English hīwan ‘religious community’ (genitive plural hīgna) + wudu.  So far this line that I am following is not from Cornwall but from Hampshire, England.  I would have to compare the dna from a Cornwall native to our dna to see if there's a match.  If so, the the Hampshire Henwoods could have stemmed from Cornwall.  

Resource: http://names.whitepages.com/Wesley/Henwood

Chris Henwood, Contact Me

I'm looking for Chris Henwood, who may have been born in Minnesota around 1960 or later.  He would be the son of a nurse and whose father was a doctor.  Please contact me.  I'm also on facebook.
Nadene Goldfoot
goldfoot1@frontier.com

Contact was made today 12/4/12.  I hope Chris is the one we are looking for.  This is so important.
Update:  He was.  Wonderful!  

Henwoods in Hampshire, England 1538

1838 Hampshire, England, Home of This Henwood Line

Nadene Goldfoot

John Henwood was born 1538 in Medstead, Hampshire, England. His family descendants seemed to stay pretty close to this area. I have found in 1713 another John was born in Shalden Village. His son John was born back in Medstead in 1739.

The next John b: 1772 was in Wield, Hamshpire.. The chain is broken with the next child, Henry b 1803 in Basingstoke. So was his son, Henry b: 1827 in Hantz, Basingstoke.

Finally we get to Charles Ernest Henwood b: 1897 in Winchfield, Hartley Wintney Row, Hampshire. His father, also Charles, b: 1854 had broken the Hampshire tradition of being born in Farnham, Surrey, England. .

It was Charles Ernest who emigrated from England and went to Australia and New Zealand, perhaps because he signed up for the army at age 16. He finally settled as an immigrant in Washington, USA and died in California.

The Hamlet of Henwood

Nadene Goldfoot

Henwood, a hamlet, is in a rural area and is likened to a settlement. It is an unincorporqted community. An urban hamlet would probably be a little larger. Henwood is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) SW of Oxford, England. It is in Wooton civil parish in the Vale of White Horse District.

Oxford is in central southern England and is 50 miles (80km) NW of London. It is the home of the U. Of Oxford. In America Henwood would be considered something like a bedroom community of Oxford.

HIstorically, Henwood started out as a single farm which is still standing and listed as a Grade II building in the parish of Cummor, until Wooton was created as a separate parish in the 19th century. Since I have traced Henwoods as far back as John Henood born in 1538, the family seemed to come before this farm.that developed into a whole community. Later, Henwood was said to be in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Resource: http//wikipedia.com

Finally Finding a Henwood Match

Finding a Henwood match in dna is quite exciting to me. We have the Tip report which tells a % of chances of having a common ancestor and at how far back. I figure one generation is 25 years; so 12 generations would be 300 years or the year 1712 to John Henwood b: 1713 in Shalden Village, Hampshire, England.


At 24 generations back or 600 years, we had a 91.41% chance to share a common ancestor with him. That would take you back to the year 1412, before Columbus sailed!

I've taken the Henwood genealogy back as far as John Henwood b: 1538 in Medstead, Hampshire, England. I had help with an English genealogist, Valerie Henwood, who has done a lot of research as well as me having used ancestry.com. English people have been keeping great records and they still have them around. I believe I've mentioned her somewhere on my blog.

Charles Henwood b: 1854 Farnham, Surrey, England and Some Descendants

Here are a few generations of our Henwood family. 
Descendants of Charles Henwood




1 Charles Henwood b: February 13, 1854 in Farnham, Surrey, England d: Bet. 1910 - 1913 in England

.. +Mary Ann Munday b: 1861 in Hank Brown Candowood Candover, Hampshire, Winchfield, England d: December 1906 in Hambledon, Surrey Sussex, England age 46

. 2 Charles Ernest Henwood b: February 06, 1897 in Winchfield, Hartley Wintney Row, County of Hampshire, England d: September 10, 1984 in Seal Beach Orange, California 90740 (Los Angeles)Santa Monica

..... +Queenie Dorothy Disney b: December 25, 1899 in Hornchurch, Romford District, Essex County, England d: March 03, 1997 in Anaheim, California: Seal Beach 90740, Orange County

. 2 Frederick James Henwood b: June 1900 in Cranleigh, Ewhurst, Surrey, England

Finding Matches of DNA at FamilyTree

Somehow I looked into the entire data base of familytreedna for a match for my son's dna match.  I just had a look and found several matches at the 37 allele level, but the surnames are not Henwood.  There is a Hardy with at 12 generations has an 88.58% possibility of a match while at 20 generations is 99.93%.  Taylow at 12 generations has an 89.17% while at 28 generations has 99.94%.  McKay at 8 generations is 70.49%, 12 generations has 90.23% while at 20 has 99.96%. 

Then I poked around and the 12 allele test came up.  There was a Henwood match with at 12 generations was 70.69% and at 28 was 94.30%!  I wrote an email and certainly hope to hear back from him.  This was amazing. 

Familytree changed their look several months back and I've been reticent about checking. 

Dr. Wesley Charles Henwood

                                            Wes Henwood with his car, at about age 21, when a senior at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.    He was born in 1930.  Notice he is wearing the Pendleton plaid shirt he favored.

Dr. Wesley Charles Henwood passed away on April 17, 2012 in Le Ceiba, Honduras.  HIs obit is on

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88723930 .  His father, from Hampshire, England, had immigrated and settled in the state of Washington where Wes grew up.  . 

Pre History of Britain: Ancient Ancestors of Henwoods

The Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Britain was the time of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans.  There were many changes in the environment such as several glacial and interglacial episodes that affected human settlement there.  They were in bands of hunter-gatherers who roamed Northern Europe following herds of animals.  They also supported themselves by fishing. 

DNA analysis shows that modern humans arrived in Britain at least 25,000 years ago.   This was before the start of the last Ice Age. As the Ice Age came to them from the north, the first humans living in Britain retreated to Southern Europe  as the land became covered with ice or frozen as tundra.

The sea's level was about 417 feet lower than it is today.  This means that Britain was joined to Ireland by a land bridge.  Boats were no longer needed.  This also caused Britain to be joined to Continental Europe by an area of dry land referred to today as Doggerland. 

The end of the last Ice Age was around 9500 BC.  Ireland again became separated from Britain due to the rising tides.  Later, around 6500 BC, Britain was cut off from the rest of Europe by the same problem. 

Archaeology shows that Homo sapiens had reoccupied Britain by 12,000 BC because it was then warmer and more hospitable.  Around 4000 BC the island was populated by people with a Neolithic culture.  They had never developed any writing, however.  No literature of pre-Roman Britain has survived.  All that is know about it is through archaeological finds, and genetic evidence.  Linguistic evidence comes from river and hill names, covered in articles on the Pre-Celtic and Celtic cultures.

The first written articles about Britain and its people was made by Pytheas, the Greek navigator who explored Britain's coast around 325 BC.  Ancient Britons were involved in maritime trade with Europe from the Neolithic time onwards, as they exported tin that they had much of.  Julius Caesar wrote about Britain around 50 BC after expeditions in 55 and 54 BC.  In 54 he was probably trying to invade in the SE part of Britain but failed. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Britain