Hedley Family History
Hedley Name Meaning
habitational name from places in County
Durham and Northumberland, so named from Old English h?ð
‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’.variant spelling of Headley.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hedley
Name Distribution of Hedley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hedley families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hedley families
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638 - 1,273 213 - 637 |
1 - 212 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hedley families
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13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hedley census records
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Hedley Family Origin
Hedley Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hedley
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Hedley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hedley census records
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Hedley Civil War Service Records
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