Horsley Family History
Horsley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example
in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and
Surrey, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ + leah
‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The reference is probably to a place where horses
were put out to pasture. The surname is widespread in north-central
England.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Horsley
Name Distribution of Horsley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Horsley families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Horsley families
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396 - 789 133 - 395 |
1 - 132 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Horsley families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Horsley census records
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Horsley Family Origin
Horsley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Horsley
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Horsley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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