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The olney Surname

olney Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places called Olney in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. The former is named in Old English as Ollaneg ‘island of a man called Olla’; the latter is from Old English ana ‘one’, ‘single’, ‘solitary’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, with later metathesis of -nl- to -ln-.

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

Distribution of olney Families in the US in 1920
Number of olney families
 49-96
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 100 - Messages: 347
ThreadAuthorReplies
Julian Nathan Olney bighouse 46
Aloha ALL Descendents of Silas F Olney and Lilian Kamano(u) roree555 10
Eunice Wilgus Olney slgianni 5
THOMAS OLNEY BORN IN ENGLAND lnasello 0
James Oney of Surry VA not the son of Benjamin Oney of Tazwell VA VicLeeGeno 0
Olney's of Quebec Robert Carr 2
Emma (Sheridan) Olney Paige (Olney) Hammond 18
OLNEY Family Bible found ElainePowell46 2
OLNEY, Harry V. pearlstarr644 0
Warren Olney Book mitchclendening 0
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