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This Wood family’s emigrant ancestor to America came from Dublin 
Ireland and they were some of the very early America settlers. Several 
hundred years before then in Dublin Ireland when the year 841 AD came 
around the history of Ireland was changed forever, for it was the year 
that the Vikings settled in Ireland. Theysettled in a small village on 
the east coast of Ireland and after a couple of years they turned it 
into a small fortified town of Wood Quay. The town was along side a 
river where they would come in the first time they invaded Ireland 
which was in 795 A.D. The river is now better know as the river Liffey. 

In these time people got their last name from where they lived or by 
their trade. It is documented that Jack L. Wood’s family came from Dublin 
Ireland to American. It is most certain that the ancient ancestors of 
this Wood family came from this area of Wood Quay a settlement of Dublin 
and were these Vikings. The people living in Wood Quay were mostly by 
trade workers in wood and got their Wood name by their tred. It is most
likely how the settlement was named. 
 
The Vikings were very important to Ireland and its history. They built 
the city walls and some of the buildings. There's rich archaeological 
remains still visible in Wood Quay. They had also introduced stone into 
the country. The Vikings intermarried and started a new culture, and they 
adapted very quickly to the Irish language and the countryside. When they 
started the new culture they named the city Dubh Linn after the river. Dubh 
Linn means the black pool but the river wasn't polluted it was naturally 
occurring. Over the centuries the name changed from Dubh Linn to what its 
now know as Dublin. This possibly occurred from misunderstanding the word 
Dubh Linn and then passing it on through the ages.




This post is small part of information on this family. 
It will give some interested descendent a look at their family 
history and where they came from. It's a starting point to find 
the Documents, Pictures and Stories that will reward them and 
their family and generations to come.

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