English: habitational name from Annesley Woodhouse in
Nottinghamshire, or from Ansley in Warwickshire. The first is named
from an unattested Old English personal name An +
leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. (The affix Woodhouse is a later,
medieval addition.) The second is from Old English ansetl
‘hermitage’ + leah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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