Felt that Ellwood/Elwood a form of Elwod/Elwold from Croyland region;
The line seems to follow what I call the Scandinavian Highway.
Ælf, Aelf, Elf;
wald, wold, then of English of wood.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wald
Etymology 3
From Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).
Noun
wald (plural walds)
Forest; woods.
References
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Middle English
Alternative forms
wæld
Etymology
From Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).
Noun
wald (plural walds or walden)
a wooded area, forested land, the woods; a wooded tract, forest preserve; the forest as a wild place
Þe wurmes & te wilde deor … o þis wald wunieð. — St. Margaret of Antioch, c1225
Ȝif æi mon hine mihte ifinden uppe þissere wælden, … — Layamon’s Brut, c1275
Beliagog in þat nede Fond him riche wald To fine. — Sir Tristrem, c1330
Was nouthire waldis in þar walke ne watir to fynde. — Wars of Alexander, 1450
References
Middle English Dictionary
Old Danish
Alternative forms
wold
Etymology
From Old Norse vald.
Noun
wald
force, violence
Descendants
Danish: vold
Old High German
Etymology
Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr
Noun
wald m
forest
Descendants
Middle High German: walt (“forest”)
German: Wald (“forest”)
Yiddish: וואַלד (vald)
Mòcheno: bòlt
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.
Noun
wald m
a forest
Descendants
Middle Low German wolt
Low German wold
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED53328
wold (n.(1)) Also wolde, wald(e, weld(e, (16th & 17th cents.) would & (early SWM) wæld(e, uald, uælde, (infl.) wolden, wælden & (in names) woldh, wol(le, walt(e, wal(le, wale, wauld(e, wault, waud(e, waut, wad, wat, wel, weald(e, wealt, weude, whalt, valde, holde, -old(e, -aud.
[OE weald, (A) wald, LOE (in place names) wal(t, w)old forest.]
1.
(a) A wooded region, forested land, the woods; ?a wooded tract, forest preserve [quot. c1330]; also, the forest as a wild place; wilde woldes;
(b) open country, a plain, meadow; also, grassy fields, grassland, pasturage;
(c) a waste place, the desert;
(d) high ground, the hills, highlands; also, a hill, down;
(e) with diminished force, freq. in generalizing phrases: the world, the earth; on wold(es, over lond and ~, everywhere, up and down, far and wide.
2.
(a) Used to designate specific hilly regions in England such as the Cotswolds, the Yorkshire Wolds, and the Weald;
(b) in surnames;
in Yorkshire;
In Yorkshire; Wold/Would
Of Alan Elfwold.
Also;
The above indicates and Elfwold/Elwold/Elwood/Ellwood, migration from Croyland, to Cumbria, and on into Scotland;
James V. Elliott of the Elliot DNA Reiver Site;
James V. Elliott also worked on a study;
Above shows a migration path of Elwold variants.
DNA Ellwood similar to Elliott;
Elliott, Elliot, Elwood, Ellwood, census comparisons;
Mark Elliott 7/9/2015
Pictured as described;
added 7/23/2015
