130 Global Wozencraft Family Members

Wozencraft Family History

This curious surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a dialectal variant of the more familiar Wolstencroft, itself a locational name from Wolstancroft in Lancashire, so called from the Olde English pre 7th Century male given name "Wulfstan", a compound of the elements "wulf", wolf, and "stan", stone, and "croft", a piece of enclosed land used for tillage or pasture, a small piece of arable land adjacent to a house (usually worked by the occupier and his family); hence, "Wulfstan's croft". This personal name also forms the initial element of Wolstenholme, a village in the same area of south Lancashire, and of Wolstanton in Staffordshire.