Huntley Family History
Huntley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, so
named from Old English hunta ‘hunter’ (perhaps a byname (see
Hunt) + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’).Scottish: habitational name from a lost place called Huntlie in
Berwickshire (Borders), with the same etymology as in 1. Huntly in
Aberdeenshire was named for a medieval Earl of Huntly (who took his
title from the Borders place); it is not the source of the
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Huntley
Name Distribution of Huntley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Huntley families
 214 - 426  72 - 213 |
 1 - 71  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Huntley families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Huntley census records
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Huntley Family Origin
Huntley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Huntley Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Huntley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Huntley census records
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Military Service by Huntley
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