Släkthistoria för Woolhead
Woolhead Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English wolle ‘wool’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English wul + hēafod) for a person with white hair as in the following quotations given in MED for the word wǒl when used in comparisons and proverbial expressions. ‘His heued and his here was white as wolle and as snow’ (1350); ‘His heeris weren whiʒte as whiʒte wolle’ (1400).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
