Chorley Family History
Chorley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places, notably
those in Lancashire and Cheshire, named Chorley, from Old English
ceorla, genitive plural of ceorl ‘peasant’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chorley
Name Distribution of Chorley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chorley families
 127 - 252  43 - 126 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chorley families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chorley census records
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Chorley Family Origin
Chorley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Chorley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chorley census records
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Military Service by Chorley
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