Last name: WOOLLEY
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WOOLLEY : This last name is indexed 105,271 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WOOLLEY : 1: English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wulf ‘wolf’ + lēah ‘wood clearing’ such as Woolley (Huntingdonshire Yorkshire) Woolley in Bovey Tracy (Devon) and Woolley in Bradford on Avon (Wiltshire).2: Irish (Cavan): in Ireland according to Woulfe when this is not the English name it has been adopted for Woulfe.
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