Hartley Family History
Hartley Name Meaning
English (mainly northern): habitational name from any of
various places so called. Several, in particular those in Hampshire,
Kent, and Devon, are named from Old English heorot ‘hart’,
‘stag’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. One in Northumberland has
as the second element Old English hlaw ‘hill’, and one in
Cumbria contains Old English cla ‘claw’, in the sense of a
tongue of land between two streams, + probably heard
‘hard’. The surname is widely distributed, but most common in
Yorkshire, where it arose from a place near Haworth, West Yorkshire,
also named with Old English heorot + leah. As a
Scottish name, it comes from the Cumbrian Hartley (see forebears
note).Irish: shortened Anglicized form of or surname
adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of
Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art
‘bear’, ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’. EML.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hartley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hartley families
 173 - 344  58 - 172 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hartley families
|
4,018 - 8,034 1,340 - 4,017 |
1 - 1,339 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hartley families
|
53 - 103 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hartley Family Origin
Hartley Immigration Information
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Hartley Family Occupations
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