Riley Family History
Riley Name Meaning
Irish: variant spelling of Reilly.English:
habitational name from Ryley in Lancashire, so named from Old English
ryge ‘rye’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There is a
Riley with the same meaning in Devon, but it does not seem to have
contributed to the surname, which is more common in northern
England.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Riley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Riley families
 4,438 - 8,874  1,480 - 4,437 |
 1 - 1,479  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Riley families
|
195 - 388 66 - 194 |
1 - 65 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Riley Family Origin
Riley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Riley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Riley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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