Bosley Family History
Bosley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Cheshire named
Bosley, from the Old English personal name Bosa or
Bot + leah ‘woodland clearing’.Americanized
spelling of French Beausoleil, especially in New England.Altered spelling of German Bosler.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bosley Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bosley families
 69 - 135  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bosley Family Origin
Bosley Emigration Information (US)
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Bosley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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