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The woolwine Surname

woolwine Name Meaning and History

  1. Probably an Americanized form of Volkwein, from a Germanic personal name composed of folc ‘people’, ‘army’ + wini ‘friend’. It is recorded in Lancaster co., PA, in the mid 18th century.
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of English Walwyn, from the Old English personal name Wealdwine ‘power-friend’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of woolwine Families in the US in 1920
Number of woolwine families
 23-43
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 43 - Messages: 162
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James St Clair Woolwine b. 1870/71 scooter389 0
Woolwine in Summers Co. NNDK50 9
Elizabeth Woolwine Watson (dau of Jacob Woolwine & Mary Harman) scooter389 0
Rebecca Woolwine from VA MaryBethCarson 7
Calvin Woolwine Rogerwoolwine 0
Jacob Paxton Woolwine beckyb13 0
Harvey Edward Woolwine Betty Cali 3
William Woolwine & Mary Robertson in VA ca. 1800 Gary Brumfield 7
Mary Woolwine Married James Wirt! Jody Bond 2
WOOLWINE Ronald Craig 40
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