General Notes

SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File #    (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"Selvage and Peterson Families and More" Charles J. Peterson PetersonC@@missouri.edu (who has generously provided the following information at AWTP, much appreciated!):
Frederick Greenwood 1914, Greenwood Genealogies, 1154-1914. The progenitor of the English Greenwood family was Wyomarus de Greenwode (Wyomarus of Greenwood) and all Greenwoods of Anglo-Saxon background are believed to be his descendants. The Greenwood surname became fixed only about 1500. He was a caterer to Maud/Matilda, the mother of King Henry II (reigned 1154-1189). A noble, there exists a coat of arms. Wyomarus or his immediate descendants built a stone manor house 1.5 miles from Heptonstall, West Riding of Yorkshire, on the slope of Hardcastle Crags overlooking Hebden Valley on the old Roman highway
leading to Colne (this would be 20 miles due west of Leeds and 2 miles from the town of Hebden Bridge). This mansion and estate are known as Greenwood Lee (first recorded in Heptonstall public records in 1362). In the vicinity is a second stone building called High Greenwood (first recorded 1379 as Hegh Grenewod), on the Roman road, Greenwood Lee Wood, High Greenwood Wood, Greenwood Lee Clough, Green Hill, and other sites are once part of a settlement and tract called Greenwood which stretched from Stoneshay Gate to Widdop Gate and from the road to the Hebden River in the valley.
Frederick Greenwood, 1914, Greenwood Genealogies. Wyomarus de
Greenwode de Greenwode-Leghe, caterer to Mawde the Empress 1154.
Kenneth P. Darling 1979, Greenwood (manuscript in the D.A.R. Library,
Washington, D.C.). This seems to have been taken from Frederick
Greenwood."