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woolen Name Meaning and History

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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Distribution of woolen Families in the US in 1920
Number of woolen families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 12 - Messages: 28
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Catherine Woolen (of Gloucester, MA), md. Samuel Kent, c. 1800 La_Abuelita 0
Jacob Woolen RichardBrunt51 7
James Woolen, MD > IL karey7457 0
Mary Kathleen WOOLEN & Robert HENRY, Staten Island, NY Dr. Dixon G. Doc STEVENS 0
trying to find ggrandpas family mattymanly 2
James Woolen, 22nd Bomb Group, WWII Neil Raiford 0
CULPEPER COUNTY VIRGINIA WOOLEN FAMILY woolenwords 0
Emma Woolen/Woolen Family arierius7174 0
Sarah E. Woolen MarcusGatlin51 3
Deborah Woolen Pat Gates 1
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