When Drury Bolling was born on 21 June 1695, in Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia, United States, his father, Colonel Robert Bolling, was 48 and his mother, Anne Stith, was 35. He married Elizabeth Meriwether in 1723, in Prince George, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 24 September 1726, in Prince George, Virginia, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Prince George, Virginia, British Colonial America.
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English: variant of Bowling , a habitational name from Bowling in Bradford, Yorkshire.
English: perhaps a nickname for a large person, from Middle English bolling ‘something swollen’, a derivative of Middle English bollen ‘to swell, bulge, puff up’.
German (Bölling): derivative of the ancient Germanic personal name Baldo (see Boll 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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