Woolley Family History
Woolley Name Meaning
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). Irish (Cavan): in Ireland according to Woulfe when this is not the English name it has been adopted for Woulfe .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022