Gulley Family History
Gulley Name Meaning
English: descriptive nickname for a giant or a large man, from
Middle English golias ‘giant’, from the Hebrew personal name
Golyat Goliath. In the Bible Goliath was the champion of the
Philistines, who stood ‘six cubits and a span’; he was defeated in
single combat by the shepherd boy David (I Samuel 17), who killed him
with a stone from his sling. There is unlikely to be any connection
with the English vocabulary word gully (from Old French
goulet ‘neck of a bottle’), which is not attested in this sense
before the 17th century.Perhaps an altered
spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gulley
Name Distribution of Gulley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gulley families
 56 - 109  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gulley families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gulley Family Origin
Gulley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gulley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Gulley
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