Wool Family History
Wool Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a worker in wool,
Middle English woll (Old English wull).English: in
southwestern England, a topographic name for someone who lived by a
spring or stream, from Middle English wolle, wulle
‘spring’, ‘stream’, a western dialect development of Old English (West
Saxon) wiell(a).Americanized form of French
Houle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wool
Name Distribution of Wool Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wool families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wool families
|
28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wool families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wool census records
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Wool Family Origin
Wool Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wool
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Wool Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wool census records
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Wool Civil War Service Records
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