Boole History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Boole were among those contributors:

Boole Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

• Edward Boole, who landed in Maryland in 1676 9
• Jane Boole, who arrived in Maryland in 1676 9

Boole Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Anne Boole, who arrived in Virginia in 1703 9

Boole Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

• Sarah Boole, aged 21, who landed in New York in 1864 9

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Boole Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century

• Mr. Francis Boole U.E. who settled in Canada c. 1783 10

• Ella Alexander Boole (1858-1952), born Ella Alexander, an American temperance leader and social reformer, head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) from 1931 to 1947
• George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician who developed Boolean logic, which became the basis of the modern digital computer, eponym of the Boole lunar crater 11
• Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916), English self-taught mathematician, an author of didactic works on mathematics, wife of George Boole
• Lucy Everest Boole (1862-1904), Irish chemist and pharmacist and professor at the London School of Medicine for Women, the first female Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, daughter of George Boole
• Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), Irish mathematician