| ![Show Contents]() Wollen History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Etymology of WollenWhat does the name Wollen mean? The surname Wollen and its many variants are derived from terms relating to the medieval wool industry. The names were inspired by jobs such as cleaning and beating the wool, weaving the wool, and selling the wool. Early Origins of the Wollen familyThe surname Wollen was first found in Cologne, where the name Wollemenger was recorded in 1180. Variants of the name, however, sprouted up in many areas of Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries. Gernodus Wolnslehner was residing in the Frankonia region in 1278. Heimisch dictus Wollere was an assessor and resident in Worrstadt, in the Rhine-Hesse area, in 1318. There was a Wollenwiger in Mainz in 1327, a Conrad Woller in Brünn in 1348, a Cuontz Wolenber in 1350 in Stuttgart, and a Conrad Wulleboghe in Hanover in 1367. Early History of the Wollen familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Wollen research. Another 31 words (2 lines of text) covering the years 1445, 1506 and 1786 are included under the topic Early Wollen History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Wollen Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Woll, Wollen, Woller, Wollner, Wöllner, Wollmann, Wollensack, Wollenweber, Wollweber, Wullenweber, Wüllner, Wollenschläger, Wollschläger, Wollenbär and many more. Early Notables of the Wollen familyMore information is included under the topic Early Wollen Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
| Wollen migration to the United States | + |
Wollen Settlers in United States in the 18th Century- Thomas Wollen, who arrived in Virginia in 1716 1
| Wollen migration to New Zealand | + |
Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include: Wollen Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century- Mr. David Wollen, (b. 1849), aged 21, Cornish farm labourer departing on 23rd September 1870 aboard the ship "Zealandia" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 23rd December 1870 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Wollen (post 1700) | + |
- Sir Ernest Wollen, Australia politician
- Peter Wollen (b. 1938), English political journalist and film theorist
- 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)
- Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 30). Emigrants to Lyttelton 1858-84 [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/new_zealand_assisted.pdf
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