Buckley Family History
Buckley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so
named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck’, ‘male
deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old
English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.English:
possibly a variant of Bulkley, from the local
pronunciation.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning
‘cowherd’, ‘servant’, ‘boy’.Altered spelling of German
Büchler (see Buechler), or of Büchle, a
variant of Buechel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Buckley
Name Distribution of Buckley Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buckley families
 3,442 - 6,882  1,148 - 3,441 |
 1 - 1,147  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Buckley families
|
58 - 114 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Buckley Family Origin
Buckley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Buckley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Buckley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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