Barbara Woolley Woodcock

Brief Life History of Barbara

When Barbara Woolley Woodcock was born in 1574, in Somersham, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Woolley, was 36 and her mother, Ellen Ellowe, was 34. She married John Woodcock on 1 December 1600, in St Lawrence Jewry with St Mary Magdalene Milk Street, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 16 November 1628, in her hometown, at the age of 54, and was buried in Somersham, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

John Woodcock
1572–1627
Barbara Woolley Woodcock
1574–1628
Marriage: 1 December 1600
Barbara Woodcock
1603–
Elizabeth Woodcock Parker
1603–1650

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  • Barbara Merick in entry for John Woodcok, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "

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 .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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