Woolstencroft

English

Alternative forms

• Wolstencroft

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Agden, Cheshire, from the Old English personal name Wulfstān + croft (“enclosure”).

Proper noun

Woolstencroft (plural Woolstencrofts)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Woolstencroft is the 24447^th most common surname in England, belonging to 168 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Woolstencroft”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears