The adderley Surname
adderley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from either of two places called
Adderley, in Staffordshire and Shropshire; the former is named with
the Old English personal name Ealdred + Old English
leah ‘woodland clearing’, while the latter has as the first
element the Old English female personal name Ealdþr¯{dh}.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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