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The sherley Surname

sherley Name Meaning and History

  1. Variant spelling of English Shirley.
  2. Americanized form of Norwegian Sjøli, Sjølie, a habitational name from a farmstead named with sjø ‘sea’, ‘lake’ + li ‘hillside’.

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

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

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Distribution of sherley Families in the US in 1920
Number of sherley families
 22-42
 8-21
 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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