Morley Family History
Morley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places
called Morley (for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, County Durham,
Norfolk, and West Yorkshire), or Moreleigh in Devon, all of which are
named from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + leah
‘woodland clearing’.Possibly an altered spelling of French
Morlet, a nickname from a diminutive of Old French mor
‘brown’, ‘dark’ (from Latin Maurus ‘Moor’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Morley
Name Distribution of Morley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Morley families
 1,013 - 2,023  338 - 1,012 |
 1 - 337  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Morley families
|
16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Morley census records
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Morley Family Origin
Morley Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Morley Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Morley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Morley census records
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Military Service by Morley
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