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kearsley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name for someone from Keresley in Warwickshire, probably so named from the Old English personal name Cenhere + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

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The kearsley name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kearsley family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kearsley Families in the US in 1920
Number of kearsley families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 14 - Messages: 17
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Sarah Kearsley WBlackman1942 0
Ancestry Juan Carlos Kearsly 0
Saludos - KEARSLEY RICARDO.K 0
Im in the Kearsley family Tammie Kearsley 1
KEARSLEY John born abt 1730 marr. Margaret BROWN 1753 @ Wigan Lancs UK Wendy Ford 0
KEARSLEY John marr. Catherine MOORE abt 1784 all children born @ Wigan, Lancs UK Wendy Ford 0
Elizabeth Kearsley Penn Frances Burns 0
KEARSLEY Geo. b abt 1785 m Mary Taylor 1815 @ Wigan, Lancs Wendy Ford 0
John Kearsley / Carlisle, PA 1770's FranyaR 1
James (Jim) Kearsley Velma 1
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