Sherwood Genealogical Association

Welcome to the Sherwood Genealogical Association Web Site. This site contains over 17,000 records of Sherwoods and related marital surnames of early immigrants from England to New England, Maryland, Canada and Australia to present day. It also includes a few native Americans. New users will receive a separate email from one of our administrators with tips on how to navigate within this site.

Please take time to examine your ancestral line for accuracy. Should you find any erroneous information, or wish to add information, please contact the administrator by email OR use the "Contact Us" button in the center of this page.

The New England Thomas Sherwood immigrants to Fairfield and Stratford, Connecticut, were the initial focus of our project as we administrators had more verifiable documentation of that group. However, we are now adding information about the Maryland Sherwood immigrants. Native American Sherwood's will also be added as we locate records for them.

Four descendants of Thomas Sherwood (1585-6) came together in 2022 to develop a repository for historical information on the surname of Sherwood and other similar spellings of that name. The objective was to create an accessible database on all known Sherwood's to include documented sources of that information as well as pertinent notes. The database is inter-active and fluid, to allow for changes when new information is obtained and for the addition of new generations as well as documents and pictures. The database is open for use by Sherwood's, by individuals who have Sherwood's in their ancestry, and by historians or genealogists.