Carley Family History
Carley Name Meaning
Reduced form of Irish McCarley.English:
habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton, Devon, possibly
named with Cornish ker ‘fort’ + Old English leah
‘woodland clearing’.Perhaps an Americanized form of German
Kehrli or Kerle (see Kerley).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carley
Name Distribution of Carley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carley families
 116 - 229  39 - 115 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carley families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Carley census records
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Carley Family Origin
Carley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Carley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Carley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Carley census records
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Military Service by Carley
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