Smedley Family History
Smedley Name Meaning
English (mainly Nottinghamshire): apparently a habitational name
from a lost or unidentified place, perhaps so called from Old English
smeðe ‘smooth’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Smedley
Name Distribution of Smedley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Smedley families
 355 - 708  119 - 354 |
 1 - 118  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Smedley families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Smedley census records
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Smedley Family Origin
Smedley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Smedley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Smedley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Smedley census records
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Military Service by Smedley
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