Pilley Family History
Pilley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places so named. One
in southern Yorkshire is recorded as Pillei in Domesday Book
and as Pillay in the late 12th century. It is probably from Old
English pil ‘pile’, ‘post’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’, i.e. a wood where timber for piles could be obtained. The
other, in Hampshire, appears in Domesday Book as Piste(s)lei,
but has later spellings resembling those for Pilley in
Yorkshire, and may have the same etymology.
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Name Distribution of Pilley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pilley families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pilley families
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65 - 128 22 - 64 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pilley families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pilley Family Origin
Pilley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Pilley
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Pilley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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