Oxley Family History
Oxley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, for
example Oxley in Staffordshire and Ox Lee near Hepworth (West
Yorkshire), named with Old English oxa ‘ox’ + leah
‘(woodland) clearing’.Probably a respelling of South
German Öchsle (see Oechsle).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Oxley
Name Distribution of Oxley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Oxley families
 923 - 1,843  308 - 922 |
 1 - 307  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Oxley families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Oxley census records
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Oxley Family Origin
Oxley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Oxley Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Oxley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Oxley census records
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Military Service by Oxley
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