When Abner Dooley was born in December 1772, in Bedford City, Bedford, Virginia, United States, his father, Captain Moses Dooley, was 24 and his mother, Mary Boyd, was 20. He married Nancy Douglass on 16 April 1793, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1840 and Pleasant Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1850. His occupation is listed as associate judge of the common pleas court in Kentucky, United States. He died on 11 September 1853, in Ipava, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Harwick Cemetery, Ipava, Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhlaoich ‘descendant of Dubhlaoch’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ (see Duff ) + laoch ‘warrior, hero’.
English: possibly a variant of Duley , Dolley , and Olley .
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