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kingsley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in Cheshire, Hampshire, and Staffordshire. These are all named in Old English as cyningesleah ‘the woodland clearing (Old English leah) of the king (cyning)’.

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

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

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Distribution of kingsley Families in the US in 1920
Number of kingsley families
 188-374
 63-187		 1-62
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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