The tinsley Surname
tinsley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire near
Rotherham, named in Old English with the genitive case of an
unattested personal name Tynni + hlaw ‘hill’,
‘mound’, ‘barrow’. This name is also established in Ulster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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