Hawley Family History
- Hawley Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English halig ‘holy’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’ + Old English leah ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,014,941 Historical Documents with Hawley on Ancestry
- 291,988 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 188,242 Census and Voter Lists
- 34,564 Military Records
- 17,349 Immigration Records
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Number of Hawley families
 388 - 773  130 - 387 |
 1 - 129  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hawley families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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