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highley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places so called, for example one in Shropshire, which was named in Old English as ‘Hugga’s woodland clearing’, from an unattested personal name + leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’.

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

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Distribution of highley Families in the US in 1920
Number of highley families
 24-46
 9-23		 1-8
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Name changes HILL, HALE, HIGHLEY pinkfishie18 0
George W. HIGHLEY Descendants Carol Espiritu 3
Norman Fredrick HIGHLEY pinkfishie18 0
Clinton HIGHLEY 1930 Duke Township, Jackson Co., OK Federal Census williael 2
John HIGHLEY b:1759 England Cheryl Highley Lengefeld 14
William HIGHLEY jdhighley01 2
Mary (HIGHLEY) PENNYPACKER (1798 - 1835) meredithaniles 0
Vernon Franklin HIGHLEY passed away 1/17/06 Rebecca Highley May 0
HIGHLEY-2 PA newspaper article(s) Max57TBird 0
HIGHLEY from KY cindy highley 0
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