The insley Surname
insley Name Meaning and History
English (Midlands): habitational name from an unidentified place,
most probably in Staffordshire. It may be from a lost place named in
Old English as Inesleah, the first element being the Old
English personal name Ine + Old English leah
‘woodland clearing’. Alternatively, it
could be a variant of the Devon name Endsley, although the
distribution makes this unlikely.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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