Thomley Family History
- Thomley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Thomley in Oxfordshire, so named from Old English þuma ‘thumb’ (used either as a nickname or in a transferred sense such as ‘dwarf’) + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 37,198 Historical Documents with Thomley on Ancestry
- 10,140 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,795 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,106 Military Records
- 760 Immigration Records
- 14,397 Member Trees
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Number of Thomley families
 297 - 591  100 - 296 |
 1 - 99  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thomley census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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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