Beckley Family History
- Beckley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the various places, in Kent, Oxfordshire, and Sussex, named Beckley, from the Old English byname Becca (see Beck 4) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. Altered spelling of the South German and Swiss topographic names Bächle, Bächli (see Bach 1).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 300,568 Historical Documents with Beckley on Ancestry
- 71,459 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 47,749 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,914 Military Records
- 4,087 Immigration Records
- 169,359 Member Trees
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Number of Beckley families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Beckley families
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111 - 219 38 - 110 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Beckley census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Beckley
- 164
- Confederate
- 39
- Union
- 125
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