Willey Family History
Willey Name Meaning
habitational name from any of various places so
named. Those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire
are named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English
leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; one in Devon probably has Old
English wiðig ‘willow’ as the first element, while one in
Surrey has Old English weoh ‘(pre-Christian)
temple’.variant spelling of Willy 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Willey
Name Distribution of Willey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Willey families
 346 - 689  116 - 345 |
 1 - 115  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Willey families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Willey census records
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Willey Family Origin
Willey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Willey Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Willey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Willey census records
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Military Service by Willey
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