The hawley Surname
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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