The hemsley Surname
hemsley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from either of two places in North
Yorkshire called Helmsley. The names are of different etymologies: the
one near Rievaulx Abbey is from the Old English personal name
Helm + Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, whereas
Upper Helmsley, near York, is from the Old English personal name
Hemele + Old English eg ‘island’, and had the form
Hemelsey till at least the 14th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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