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emley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from the Old English male personal name Em(m)a (which has nothing to do with the modern girl’s name) + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  2. Altered spelling of German Emler or Emele (see Emel).

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

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Distribution of emley Families in the US in 1920
Number of emley families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 23 - Messages: 74
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I am an Emley Harriet Emley Barnes 3
Emley, Walter & Rose Lee of Caldwell, KS bomcde 0
Peter Emley C Egger 0
Anna Emley and Ellis Emley Joan A. 0
Descendants of Sir John EMLEY (????-1102) atrayn0704 0
gaps in the line smassarello 5
EMLEY SEARCH DAVE EMLEY 16
Christopher Embley or Emley of York Shalisse Johnstun 0
Peter Emley wcsmmith 0
Mrs. Frank C. Emley obit wcollins128 0
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