When Lewis Benjamin Woolley was born on 16 June 1852, in South Dorchester Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Henry Woolley, was 40 and his mother, Eliza Ann Brooks, was 33. He married Caroline Boughner on 30 January 1877, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in B Township, Algoma, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 9 January 1911, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 58, and was buried in Springfield, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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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 .
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