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eckersley Name Meaning and History

English (Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in the parish of Leigh, near Wigan, probably so named from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Ecgheard (see Eckert) or Ecghere + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the eckersley family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of eckersley Families in the US in 1920
Number of eckersley families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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