Hemsley Family History
Hemsley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in North
Yorkshire called Helmsley. The names are of different etymologies: the
one near Rievaulx Abbey is from the Old English personal name
Helm + Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, whereas
Upper Helmsley, near York, is from the Old English personal name
Hemele + Old English eg ‘island’, and had the form
Hemelsey till at least the 14th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hemsley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hemsley families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hemsley families
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180 - 358 61 - 179 |
1 - 60 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hemsley families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hemsley Family Origin
Hemsley Immigration Information
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Hemsley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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