Last name: WOOLSEY
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WOOLSEY : This last name is indexed 42,859 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WOOLSEY : English (Norfolk): from the Middle English personal name Wulsy (Old English Wulfsige from wulf ‘wolf’ + sige ‘victory’). The personal name was common in Suffolk where it gave rise to the surname of Henry VIII's minister Cardinal Wolsey.
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