The pittsley Surname
pittsley Name Meaning and History
Possibly an altered spelling of German Pitzler, an occupational name for a mender of clothes or a cobbler, from an agent derivative of dialect bizlen ‘to bite off a little’; or perhaps a nickname for an irascible man, from the same word in the sense ‘to prickle’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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