Forley Family History
Forley Name Meaning
from Fordley in Middleton (Suffolk) which is recorded as Forlea in 1086 Fordle in 1254 and Fordelee in 1286. The place-name derives from Old English ford ‘ford river crossing’ + lēah ‘open woodland’. the north-western cluster is unexplained. It may be the result of migration or alternatively a variant of Farley . see Furley .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016