Hawley Family History
Hawley Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places
called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English halig
‘holy’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have
once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its
first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or
healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common
in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive
from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse
haugr ‘mound’ + Old English leah ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hawley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hawley families
 208 - 413  70 - 207 |
 1 - 69  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hawley families
|
388 - 773 130 - 387 |
1 - 129 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hawley families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hawley Family Origin
Hawley Immigration Information
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Hawley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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