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The hedley Surname

hedley Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from places in County Durham and Northumberland, so named from Old English h?ð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
  2. variant spelling of Headley.

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

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Distribution of hedley Families in the US in 1920
Number of hedley families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 69 - Messages: 207
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HEDLEY IN SHEFFIELD/GOOLE/DURHAM. eileenhealey60 0
Thomas Hedley 1864 lizian173 6
Hedley in New York patricia_hedley 0
HEDLEY, HEADLEY, HEADLEE Darlene Headlee Collins 9
Ann Hedley of Durham Co. England Laurieewb 10
HEDLEY, ERNEST MARVIN Debbie 2
HEDLEY'S OF NORTHERN IRELAND WendyT62 1
william hedley ann alexander 6
HEDLEY, William of Newcastle 1859 Brian Miller 6
HEDLEY'S ,COWEY'S AND KEMP'S, IN TYNEMOUTH heatherkemp99 3
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