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worley Name Meaning and History

English: most probably a habitational name, either from a variant spelling of Wortley, or alternatively from places in Essex and Somerset called Warley, named in Old English with wær, wer ‘weir’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from Warley in the West Midlands, which is named with Old English weorf ‘draft oxen’ + leah.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of worley Families in the US in 1920
Number of worley families
 88-174
 30-87		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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