The Wooldridge Family
Wooldridge-Surname Descendants to ca. 1900 of John Wooldridge (ca. 1678-1757), Blacksmith of Henrico and Chesterfield Counties, Virginia
Professionally designed and printed hardbound, two-volume compilation of the Wooldridge surname descendants down to ca. 1900 of John Wooldridge (ca. 1678-1757) of Chesterfield and Henrico Counties Virginia, with illustrations, full index, and notes to sources.
Features:
1231 pages plus
32 pages of introductory material
Over 50 illustrations, including two pages of full color illustrations,
Endpapers reproducing the original signed will of John Wooldridge.
This work attempts to trace all Wooldridge-surname lines descending from the blacksmith immigrant John Wooldridge. This is history where it happened, from the ground up!
Trace in detail your own line, and also read about your Wooldridge cousins, including among hundreds of others:
David Wooldridge
~ Abraham Lincoln's first law client
Dean Wooldridge
~ Early work with missile systems put him on the cover of Time
Clifton R. Wooldridge
~ The once famous "Sherlock Holmes of Chicago"
Henry G. Wooldridge
~ Installed 16 statues on his cemetery plot in Mayfield KY
William B. Wooldridge
~ One-legged Confederate cavalry colonel
Alexander Penn Wooldridge
~ Godfather of the University of Texas, Austin
William H. Wooldridge
~ Helped capture Aaron Burr
About Author
Married with two grown sons and four energetic grandchildren, the compiler, William C. Wooldridge, is a lifelong history buff and retired vice president of Norfolk Southern Railway. A graduate of Harvard College (1965) and the University of Virginia School of Law (1969), he served in Army JAG from 1969-73. He is also the author of Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War (available from the publisher, University of Virginia Press, and from Amazon).
William C. Wooldridge