Mosley Family History
Mosley Name Meaning
English (chiefly southern Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational
name from any of several places called Mos(e)ley in central, western,
and northwestern England. The obvious derivation is from Old English
mos ‘peat bog’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’, but the
one in southern Birmingham (Museleie in Domesday Book) had as
its first element Old English mus ‘mouse’, while one in
Staffordshire (Molesleie in Domesday Book) had the genitive
case of the Old English byname Moll.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mosley
Name Distribution of Mosley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mosley families
 541 - 1,080  181 - 540 |
 1 - 180  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mosley families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mosley census records
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Mosley Family Origin
Mosley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mosley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mosley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mosley census records
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Military Service by Mosley
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