Hanley Family History
Hanley Name Meaning
Irish: shortened form of O’Hanley, an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó hÁinle ‘descendant of Áinle’, a
personal name meaning ‘champion’. This is the name of a ruling family
in Connacht; it is now common in southern Ireland.English:
habitational name from any of various places, such as Handley in
Cheshire, Derbyshire. Northamptonshire, and Dorset and Hanley in
Staffordshire and Worcestershire, all from Old English hean,
the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article)
of heah ‘high’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from
Handley Farm in Clayhanger, Devon, which is named from Old English
han ‘(boundary) stone’ + leah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hanley
Name Distribution of Hanley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hanley families
 320 - 637  107 - 319 |
 1 - 106  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hanley families
|
49 - 96 17 - 48 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hanley census records
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Hanley Family Origin
Hanley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hanley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hanley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hanley census records
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Military Service by Hanley
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