Boley History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Boley family

The surname Boley was first found in Mecklenburg, where chronicles first mention Bole von Malchow of Rostock in Mecklenburg in the year 1298.

Early History of the Boley family

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Boley Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Boel, Boell, Boeler, Boelert, Bohlen, Bohllen, Boehlen, Boehl, Boehler, Boehlert, Boehling, Boehllen, Bolen, Boelen, Boelens, Boellner, Boellsch, Bollen, Boellen, Bohl, Bole, Bolin and many more.

Early Notables of the Boley family

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Boley Ranking

In the United States, the name Boley is the 9,057^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Boley migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Boley Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Johan Carl Boley, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1764 2

Boley migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Boley Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Mr. Abraham Boley, (b. 1812), aged 20 who was convicted in Somerset, England for life for house breaking, transported aboard the "Circassian" on 4th November 1832, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Boley (post 1700) +

Michael Jerome Boley (b. 1982), former American NFL football linebacker for the New York Giants and Cincinnati Bengals from 2005 to 2013
John Peter "Joe" Boley (1896-1962), nicknamed "Silent Joe," an American Major League Baseball shortstop who played from 1927 to 1932
Donna Jean Boley (b. 1935), American politician, Member of the West Virginia Senate (1985-)
Bruno A. Boley (b. 1924), American academic, Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University
Prince Mark Boley (b. 1989), Liberian footballer
George Eutychianus Saigbe Boley (b. 1949), Liberian politician and former rebel leader

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Convict Records of Australia. Retrieved 8th February 2021 from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/circassian