Lawley Family History
Lawley Name Meaning
English (chiefly West Midlands): habitational name from Lawley in
Shropshire, named in Old English as ‘Lafa’s wood’, from a personal
name Lafa (from laf ‘remnant’, ‘survivor’) +
leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lawley
Name Distribution of Lawley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lawley families
 225 - 448  76 - 224 |
 1 - 75  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lawley families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lawley census records
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Lawley Family Origin
Lawley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lawley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lawley census records
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Military Service by Lawley
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