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Ooley / Wooley / Garren

Ooley / Wooley / Garren

Posted: 24 Jul 2006 7:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 15 Feb 2009 3:19PM GMT
Surnames: Ooley, ,Wooley, Jones, Garren
Elwood Harris Ooley b 31 dec 1899 in Ca. Married Lillian Jones. Elwood is the s/o John H Ooley b.1872 in Indiana.
Married Emma J Garren.
We were told somewhere back the surname was Wooley and someone dropped the W. Does any of this sound familar?
We have also seen the name Doley, but that could be a miss spell.
Hoping to make a connection out there.
thank you
Dee

Re: Ooley / Wooley / Garren

Posted: 5 Sep 2008 3:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
That's correct I am a Wooley that sounds my names as Ooley. We been sayig this for a couple hundred years. The Wooley's that left Taylor County, Kentucky in the early 1800's and went to Indiana and elsewhere Texas, etc took the way we were spelling Wooley at the time which was Owley, OOley, Ouley, Whooley. The tax collectors spelled the names the way thet sounded to them. All the Ooley's and Owley's are really Wooley's. Jimmy Wooley

Re: Ooley / Wooley / Garren

Posted: 5 Sep 2008 3:52AM GMT
Classification: Query
That's correct I am a Wooley that sounds my name as Ooley. We been saying this for a couple hundred years. The Wooley's that left Taylor County, Kentucky in the early 1800's and went to Indiana and elsewhere Texas, etc took the way we were spelling Wooley at the time which was Owley, OOley, Ouley, Whooley. The tax collectors spelled the names the way thet sounded to them. All the Ooley's and Owley's are really Wooley's. I have tax lists from year to year to where it would be spelled Wooley one year and Ooley the next year for the same property,Jimmy Wooley

Re: Ooley / Wooley / Garren

Posted: 5 Sep 2008 3:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
That's correct I am a Wooley that sounds my name as Ooley. We been saying this for a couple hundred years. The Wooley's that left Taylor County, Kentucky in the early 1800's and went to Indiana and elsewhere Texas, etc took the way we were spelling Wooley at the time which was Owley, OOley, Ouley, Whooley. The tax collectors spelled the names the way they sounded to them. All the Ooley's and Owley's are really Wooley's. I have tax lists from year to year to where it would be spelled Wooley one year and Ooley the next year for the same property,Jimmy Wooley
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