Woolley Family History
Woolley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so
called. Most, including those in Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, and West
Yorkshire, are named from Old English wulf ‘wolf’ or perhaps
the personal name or byname Wulf (see Wolf) +
leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. One example in Somerset, however,
has as its first element Middle English wolle, wulle
‘spring’, ‘stream’ (see Wool 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Woolley
Name Distribution of Woolley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woolley families
 546 - 1,090  183 - 545 |
 1 - 182  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woolley families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Woolley census records
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Woolley Family Origin
Woolley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Woolley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Woolley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Woolley census records
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Military Service by Woolley
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