The huxley Surname
huxley Name Meaning and History
English (mainly Shropshire): habitational name from a place in
Cheshire, which is probably so called from the genitive case of the
Old English personal name Hucc or from Old English husc,
hux ‘insult’, ‘taunt’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Huxley family in Australia | David Mawle | 8 |
| Francis Huxley and Harriet Bedord |
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| Thomas Huxley, Suffield, CT | Art Sikes | 1 |
| Sarah Huxley- London to Melbourne pre-1843 |
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| Thomas Huxley/Staffordshire, Eng. |
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