The wortley Surname
wortley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from either of two places in Yorkshire
called Wortley. The one near Barnsley is named with Old English
wyrt ‘plant’, ‘vegetable’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’;
the one near Leeds probably has as its first element an unattested Old
English personal name, Wyrca, perhaps a short form of a
compound name with a first element weorc ‘work’,
‘fortification’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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