Wo*l*m Genealogy

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FAMILY DIVISIONS

Descendants of Jacob Woolam (1715-1778)

This is the largest of the Wo*l*m family groups. Many genealogical sources show Jacob’s father to be Jacob Ulm, a Huegonot emigrant from Germany via France. One family researcher disputes this and I cannot add to the argument either way. Old Jacob Woolam left a will in what is now West Virginia naming his twelve offspring which has been a veritable boon to researchers. By the way, old Jacob’s youngest son, Jacob (1759-?) got his gun.

At least one of Jacob Woolam’s sons, Johann Baltzar (1745-1823), moved to Ohio circa 1800. This group I refer to as the Ohio Wollam division. Johann Baltzar had eleven children and I have data on descendants of two of them, Uria Wollam (about 1815-1889) and Henry B. Wollam (1817-1862). Some of Uria’s descendants went to Texas circa 1910 and are the Texas Wollams. Some of Henry B.’s descendants went on To Illinois and, of them, some took the spelling Woolam and are in Illinois today.

Descendants of Andrew Woolum ()

Andrew Woolum, who on occasion spelled his name, Ullum, married Ursley Woodard in Tennessee in 1789. Andrew is possibly descended from Old Jacob Woolam but recent research suggests a seperate German source of this family. Albert Woolum is researching Andrew's ancestory and Larry G. Johnson is researching his descendants. See links to their home pages below for more information on their work.

South Carolina Wo*l*m descendants

Follow this carefully because, there were, in South Carolina at the end of the 1700s, two Wo*l*m families, probably related and source unknown. What is confusing is that there were three family members named Bartholomew, a father and son Bartholomew who, with other family members moved to the St. Louis area circa 1805. These I will refer to as the South Carolina/Illinois Woolams. Living in another county was my great-great-grandfather Bartholomew Woolam who moved to Tennessee circa 1815. These I will refer to as the South Carolina/Tennessee Woolams.

South Carolina/Illinois Woolam family

This family has been tracked in Illinois by land and census records from about 1805 till the middle of the century at which time they seem to have disappeared from Illinois. They are not connected to the Illinois Woolams I know today. I know of one Woolam in theTexas 1870 census that was born in Illinois, his oldest children born in Louisiana, and his youngest in Texas. There is a descendant of this family that has done extensive research, bits of which I have seen. However, I have not talked to him and cannot at this time refer you on to him.

South Carolina/Tennessee Woolam family

Bartholomew Woolam (about 1780-about 1845) was still in South Carolina at the time of the War of 1812 when he served in the state militia. By 1820, he and his family were in Tennessee. where the last of his ten children was born in 1833. His eldest son, John C. Woolam went to Texas at the Time of the Texas Revolution and became a Methodist Minister. James M. Woolam went to Mississippi where some of his descendants are still to be found. Another son, William, went to Arkansas and was lost to us till recently when we received e-mail from what turned out to be a great-great-granddaughter. The youngest son, Absalom Columbus, and two of his sisters followed their oldest brother to Texas before the Civil War. The Texas Woolams, descended from Absalom are in the southern tip and the High Plains regions of Texas, though in the twentieth century they have spread to California, Colorado Connecticut, Maine, Florida, Nevada and North Carlolina that I know of.

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