Copley Family History
Copley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places
called Copley, for example in County Durham, Staffordshire, and
Yorkshire, from the Old English personal name Coppa (apparently
a byname for a tall man) or from copp ‘hilltop’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Copley
Name Distribution of Copley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Copley families
 51 - 100  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Copley families
|
829 - 1,656 277 - 828 |
1 - 276 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Copley families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Copley Family Origin
Copley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Copley
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Copley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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