Paley Family History
Paley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): possibly a nickname for someone with pale
or lustreless eyes, from Middle English pale ‘pale’ +
eye ‘eye’.English: from an Old Scandinavian
personal name, Old Danish Palli or Old Swedish Palle,
probably originally an ethnic name meaning ‘Pole’.French: habitational name from a place in Seine-et-Marne, probably
originally derived from Latin palus ‘post’, ‘stake’ + suffix
-etum.Jewish (from Belarus), Belorussian, and
Ukrainian: occupational name for a distiller, from an eastern Slavic
word meaning ‘to burn’ (Russian palit, Ukrainian palyty)
+ the Slavic noun suffix -ej.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Paley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Paley families
 186 - 370  63 - 185 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Paley families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Paley Family Origin
Paley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Paley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Paley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Paley
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