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My husband and I just returned from a trip to Ireland, spent mostly in County Cork and in the various records archives in Dublin. While there we were told by a genealogist that there are two distinct Wolfe lines in Ireland, not connected genetically. One is the Norman group who came to Ireland with William the Conqueror. The other is an ancient Irish family whose name was spelled in Irish as DeBhulbh but which is pronounced DeWolfe. Both groups now use several variations in the spelling of the name so one can't determine the family group from the spelling. Unless your two groups have some similarities in the DNA profiles, perhaps they have different origins. Our next surprise was to learn that in Ireland, my husband's family would have been Wolfe, not DeWolfe, but we don't know yet which branch of the Wolfe, DeWolfe, DeBhulbh, etc. etc. family we are connected with. Another surprise was that it was not uncommon for a child of a legal marriage to take the surname of the mother, especially if the mother's family had land or money which might be left to a child bearing that family name. We saw examples of that in the church baptismal records - C of I. That also messes up a DNA line!
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