Morley Family History
Morley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places
called Morley (for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, County Durham,
Norfolk, and West Yorkshire), or Moreleigh in Devon, all of which are
named from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + leah
‘woodland clearing’.Possibly an altered spelling of French
Morlet, a nickname from a diminutive of Old French mor
‘brown’, ‘dark’ (from Latin Maurus ‘Moor’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Morley
Name Distribution of Morley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Morley families
 114 - 226  39 - 113 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Morley families
|
1,013 - 2,023 338 - 1,012 |
1 - 337 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Morley families
|
16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Morley Family Origin
Morley Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Morley
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Morley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Morley census records
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Morley Civil War Service Records
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