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bosley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Bosley, from the Old English personal name Bosa or Bot + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  2. Americanized spelling of French Beausoleil, especially in New England.
  3. Altered spelling of German Bosler.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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bosley Family Facts

Distribution of bosley Families in the US in 1920
Number of bosley families
 57-111
 20-56		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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