To Valerie "Boatkitten" and interested Woolsey researchers: Thank you for your interest. The WOOLSEYS in the US are NOT descended from Rev. Benjamin Woolsey, notwithstanding what the early researchers conjectured. There is NO Rev. Benjamin Woolsey born bef 1600. There was a Rev. Benjamin Woolsey of New York, but he was two or three generations later, and must have been the Rev. Benjamin Woolsey that became confused with the father of George Woolsey by some researchers. Our George Woolsey is the son of George Woolsey and Frances Robberts, of Norfolk, England, and Rotterdam, Holland. Ardell is a fairly common name among the Utah Woolseys, with branches into Canada and Arizona. Ardel Kenneth Woolsey, s/o John Wm Woolsey and Alice Annice Laramie, s/o James Brigham Woolsey and Tyresha Mary Myers, s/o James Hopkins Woolsey and Lovina Patterson, s/o Joseph Woolsey & Abigail Schaeffer. Ardell Wolsey, s/o Burrell Motley Woolsey & Alvena Olsen, s/o Thomas Andrew Woolsey & Sarah Motley, s/o Thomas Woolsey and Mary Burrell, s/o Joseph Woolsey and Abigail Schaeffer. Ardell Lamont Woolsey, s/o Ardell Reece Woolsey & Thelma Laverl Dudley - Ardell Reece Woolsey, s/o Edward Lincoln Woolsey & Merelda Bennett, s/o Edward Peter Woolsey & Esther Rees, s/o Thomas Andrew Woolsey and Sarah Motley, s/o Thomas Woolsey & Mary Burrell, s/o Joseph Woolsey & Abigail Schaeffer. The above is from memory, but I think is correct in spirit, if not in total. Thomas Andrew Wolsey went into Canada, and several of his descendants spell the name with one O. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker