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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Name Distribution of Woolley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Woolley families
 69 - 136  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Woolley families
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546 - 1,090 183 - 545 |
1 - 182 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Woolley families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Woolley Family Origin
Woolley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Woolley
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Woolley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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