Brierley Family History
- Brierley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the places called Brierl(e)y, in the West Midlands, West and South Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all of which are named with Old English br?r ‘briar’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 341,280 Historical Documents with Brierley on Ancestry
- 172,175 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 73,396 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,836 Military Records
- 7,183 Immigration Records
- 82,690 Member Trees
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Number of Brierley families
 1,880 - 3,758  627 - 1,879 |
 1 - 626  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brierley families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brierley census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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