The walmsley Surname
walmsley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Walmersley in Greater Manchester,
which according to Ekwall is named from Old English wald
‘forest’ + mere ‘lake’ or (ge)m?re ‘boundary’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’. However, it is perhaps more
plausibly from the genitive case of an Old English personal name
Walhm?r, meaning ‘foreign-famous’, or Waldm?r
‘rule-famous’ + Old English leah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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