The Scholeys and Schooleys History

My family name has fascinated me from being a small child, my mother had no idea of the origin and in view of the first three letters said that she assumed it had a German origin. In my teens two of my cousins tried to compile a family tree but found our grandfather unwilling to discuss his family in very much detail. Over the years I have been gathering such information as I can from various sources. Ultimately I set up an internet group and we have nearly a hundred members from...
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My family name has fascinated me from being a small child, my mother had no idea of the origin and in view of the first three letters said that she assumed it had a German origin. In my teens two of my cousins tried to compile a family tree but found our grandfather unwilling to discuss his family in very much detail. Over the years I have been gathering such information as I can from various sources. Ultimately I set up an internet group and we have nearly a hundred members from around the world all pooling their snippets of information. I have not confined myself to simply researching my own line, I have collated and gathered information about The early Schooley Quakers who entered America in the late 17th centuryThe Scholey who had been a Leeds Butcher and became a prosperous landowner in AustraliaThe Scholeys of Arizona who entered America from Yorkshire in the 19th CenturyThe Scholey missionary slaughtered in China at the turn of the 20th CenturyThe boy from Sandal Magna in Yorkshire who became Mayor of LondonWhat follows is the result of twenty years research.