Hanley Family History
Hanley Name Meaning
Irish: shortened form of O’Hanley, an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó hÁinle ‘descendant of Áinle’, a
personal name meaning ‘champion’. This is the name of a ruling family
in Connacht; it is now common in southern Ireland.English:
habitational name from any of various places, such as Handley in
Cheshire, Derbyshire. Northamptonshire, and Dorset and Hanley in
Staffordshire and Worcestershire, all from Old English hean,
the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article)
of heah ‘high’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from
Handley Farm in Clayhanger, Devon, which is named from Old English
han ‘(boundary) stone’ + leah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hanley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hanley families
 395 - 788  132 - 394 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hanley families
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320 - 637 107 - 319 |
1 - 106 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hanley families
|
49 - 96 17 - 48 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hanley Family Origin
Hanley Immigration Information
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Hanley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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