Brief Life History of Elizabeth
Elizabeth Wheeler was born about 1754, in Brunswick, Virginia, British Colonial America. She married Randolph Randle Woolsey about 1775, in Brunswick, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Register of marriages, Brunswick County, Virginia, 1751-1853
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Children (6)
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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