Seeley Family History
Seeley Name Meaning
English: nickname for a person with a cheerful disposition,
from Middle English seely ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’ (Old English
s?lig, from s?l ‘happiness’, ‘good
fortune’). The word was also occasionally used as a female personal
name during the Middle Ages. The sense ‘pitiable’, which developed
into modern English silly, is not attested before the 15th
century.Altered form of German Seele, respelled to
preserve the bisyllabic pronunciation of the German name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Seeley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seeley families
 129 - 255  44 - 128 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Seeley families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Seeley Family Origin
Seeley Emigration Information (US)
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Seeley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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