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Excluded from this history were 'natural children', mixed-race descendants of unions with slaves. Families often used surnames as given names, as in the "Johns" of Johns Hopkins University, or where a surname might die out because the last holder only had daughters, Cole Digges was the grandson of William Cole.
Variations of the name include the surnames Woodd, Woode, Woods, Wod, and Wode. [2] The equivalent name in German is Wald, and in many cases, emigrants from the German-speaking countries Anglicized this name to Wood when they settled in countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, et cetera.
This is the list of surnames of Georgian people This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
John Mathews settled in Augusta County, Virginia around 1737 and held several local offices in the community. [8] [9] Several of his sons took part in patriot efforts during the American Revolutionary War; Sampson Mathews (c. 1737–1807) and George Mathews (1739–1812) were members of the Augusta County Committee of Safety, which drafted the Augusta Resolves and the Augusta Declaration. [10]
Bambi Woods (born 1955), American pornographic actress; Barbara Alyn Woods (born c. 1965), American actress; Belita Woods (1948–2012), lead singer of R&B groups, Brainstorm and Parliament-Funkadelic
John George Wood (1827–1889), British natural history writer; John Graeme Wood (1933–2007), veteran of the British far right and member of the British Peoples Party; John H. Wood Jr. (1916–1979), U.S. federal judge; John Henry Wood (1841–1914), English entomologist; John J. Wood (1784–1874), U.S. Representative from New York
Channel 7 has been a CBS affiliate since its sign-on, owing to WDBJ radio's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network. [7] WDBJ-TV was the third television station to sign-on from Roanoke, after NBC affiliate WSLS-TV (channel 10) and WROV-TV (channel 27, frequency later occupied by WFXR ), which operated as an independent station from ...
Two waves of German colonists in 1714 and 1717 founded a colony in Virginia called Germanna, located near modern-day Culpeper, Virginia. The name "Germanna", selected by Governor Alexander Spotswood , reflected both the German immigrants who sailed across the Atlantic to Virginia and the British queen, Anne , who was in power at the time of the ...