Burley Family History
Burley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, for
example in Hampshire, Rutland, Shropshire, and West Yorkshire, named
Burley from Old English burh ‘fortified manor’, ‘stronghold’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.Americanized spelling
of Swiss German Bürli, from a diminutive of bur
‘peasant’, ‘farmer’ (see Bauer).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Burley
Name Distribution of Burley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burley families
 278 - 554  93 - 277 |
 1 - 92  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burley families
|
23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Burley census records
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Burley Family Origin
Burley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Burley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Burley
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