Bulley Name Study

Surnames/tags: Bulley Bully Bewley

Contents 1 How to Participate 2 Goals 3 Related Surnames and Surname Variants 4 Meaning and Origin 5 Task List 6 Notes 7 Notable Name Bearers 8 Resources 9 Sources

How to Participate

Please contact the Study's coordinator Steven Bohlen or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the Bulley surname and the variants of that name, with a focus on Bully, Bewley, and Bullen. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Bulley
• Bully
• Bewley
• Booley
• Bolley
• Bolly
• Bullen
• Bullin
• Bolin
• Bohlen

Meaning and Origin

The Bulley surname is English in origin and is described in the Dictionary of American Family Surnames, as follows:

1. Norman habitational name from any of several places in northern France called Bouillé or Bully, from a Gaulish personal name of uncertain form and meaning + the locative suffix -acum.
2. Habitational name from Bulleigh in Devon or Bulley in Gloucestershire, both named with Old English bula 'bull' + lēah 'woodland clearing'.

Task List

In Progress

• Complete the England Project's Orphan Trail and join Team Devon.
• Categorize all Bulley and Bully profiles with the Bulley Name Study tag.
• Categorize all Bulley and Bully profiles with the appropriate location categories (ex. Devon, Bulley Name Study, Newfoundland, Bulley Name Study, etc.),

Complete

• Adopt all orphaned Bulley & Bully profiles.
• Create profiles for all Bulley's who have a Wikipedia page and add to the project's Notables list.
• Build out Bully family of Elizabeth City County (now Hampton), Virginia. (Complete for now; Will need to revisit once Family History Centers are re-opened.)

Notes

Category: [[Category:Bulley Name Study]]

Sticker: {{One Name Study|name=Bulley}}

Living members of the Study can place {{Member|ONS|name=Bulley}} on their own profiles.

Notable Name Bearers

• Arthur Bulley (1861 - 1942), British cotton merchant and gardener
• Cyril Bulley (1907–1989), Church of England bishop
• Frederick Bulley (1810–1885), President of Magdalen College, Oxford

Resources

• List of person profiles in the project
• List of Bulleys on WikiTree
• List of Bullys on WikiTree

Sources

• Hanks, Patrick. 2003. Dictionary of American family names. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• O'Neill, Paul, A seaport legacy: The story of St. John's Newfoundland. Erin, Ont: Press Porcépic, 1976.
• Ellison, Thomas, The cotton trade of Great Britain : including a history of the Liverpool cotton market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association. London : Effingham Wilson, 1886.