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chorley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places, notably those in Lancashire and Cheshire, named Chorley, from Old English ceorla, genitive plural of ceorl ‘peasant’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The chorley name in History

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Distribution of chorley Families in the US in 1920
Number of chorley families
 4-6
 2-3		 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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