Shepley Family History
- Shepley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English sceap ‘sheep’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 117,953 Historical Documents with Shepley on Ancestry
- 49,124 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,121 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,091 Military Records
- 2,772 Immigration Records
- 36,845 Member Trees
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Number of Shepley families
 158 - 313  53 - 157 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shepley census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Shepley census records
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