Hedley Family History
Hedley Name Meaning
habitational name from places in County
Durham and Northumberland, so named from Old English h?ð
‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’.variant spelling of Headley.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hedley
Name Distribution of Hedley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hedley families
 638 - 1,273  213 - 637 |
 1 - 212  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hedley families
|
13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hedley census records
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Hedley Family Origin
Hedley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hedley Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hedley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hedley census records
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Military Service by Hedley
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