Beckley Family History
Beckley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places, in
Kent, Oxfordshire, and Sussex, named Beckley, from the Old English
byname Becca (see Beck 4) + Old English leah
‘woodland clearing’.Altered spelling of the South German
and Swiss topographic names Bächle, Bächli (see
Bach 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Beckley Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Beckley families
 111 - 219  38 - 110 |
 1 - 37  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Beckley Family Origin
Beckley Emigration Information (US)
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Beckley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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