Kirkley Family History
Kirkley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Kirkley in Northumberland, found in
early records as Crekellawe. The element Crekel is from
Celtic crug ‘hill’ + Old English hyll ‘hill’, to
which the tautologous addition (Old English hla ‘hill’,
‘mound’) was later made. There is also a Kirkley in Suffolk, named
from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English leah
‘woodland clearing’, which may also have contributed to the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kirkley
Name Distribution of Kirkley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kirkley families
 73 - 144  25 - 72 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kirkley families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kirkley census records
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Kirkley Family Origin
Kirkley Emigration Information (US)
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Kirkley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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