Copley Family History
Copley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places
called Copley, for example in County Durham, Staffordshire, and
Yorkshire, from the Old English personal name Coppa (apparently
a byname for a tall man) or from copp ‘hilltop’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Copley Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Copley families
 829 - 1,656  277 - 828 |
 1 - 276  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Copley families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Copley census records
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Copley Family Origin
Copley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Copley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Copley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Copley census records
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Military Service by Copley
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