English and Scottish: habitational name from Wetherley in
Cambridgeshire, named with Old English weðer ‘wether’, ‘ram’
+ leah ‘woodland clearing’, or possibly from Wedderlie in
Berwickshire, Scotland, which has the same origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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