The bardsley Surname
bardsley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Bardsley in Lancashire, so named
from the genitive case of the Old English personal name
Beornred (composed of the elements beorn ‘young
warrior’ + r?d ‘counsel’, ‘advice’) + Old English
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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