Fairley Family History
Fairley Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from one of several places named from
Old English fæger ‘beautiful’ or fearn ‘fern’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’. Black associates the name in this
spelling particularly with the barony of Fairley or Fairlie near Largs
in Ayrshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fairley
Name Distribution of Fairley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fairley families
 90 - 177  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fairley families
|
172 - 341 58 - 171 |
1 - 57 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fairley census records
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Fairley Family Origin
Fairley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fairley Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fairley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fairley census records
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Military Service by Fairley
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