The woolley Surname
woolley Name Meaning and History
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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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Richard Woolley b.1730 ,South Carolina |
 NancyBaumgart
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| Re :James W. Woolley 1797 NJ |
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| Bessie Josephine Woolley, b. England 1895, m. Leslay Eustuce Walters in Australia | SMarriott | 1 |
| Samuel Woolley | mary wooledge gillen | 4 |
| WOOLLEY or WOOLSEY surname |
Dana Braheny
| 1 |
| Woolleys in York, Yorkshire |
| 0 |
| NJ Woolleys (Augusta, Brazil) | Kerry | 12 |
| Reason Woolley | Jodi (Wooley) Stewart | 4 |
| Colonel HAROLD D. WOOLLEY |
cavscout148
| 0 |
| Woolley, Ray, Secker |
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