Woolen Family History
Woolen Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived on a curved or
irregularly shaped piece of land, from Old English woh
‘curved’, ‘crooked’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’, or a habitational
name from Woolland in Dorset, named from an Old English winn,
wynn ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Woolen Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woolen families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woolen census records
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Woolen Family Origin
Woolen Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Woolen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Woolen census records
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Military Service by Woolen
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