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hawley Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English halig ‘holy’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’ + Old English leah ‘clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hawley Families in the US in 1920
Number of hawley families
 208-413
 70-207		 1-69
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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