Hanley Family History
- Hanley Name Meaning
- Irish: shortened form of O’Hanley, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁinle ‘descendant of Áinle’, a personal name meaning ‘champion’. This is the name of a ruling family in Connacht; it is now common in southern Ireland. English: habitational name from any of various places, such as Handley in Cheshire, Derbyshire. Northamptonshire, and Dorset and Hanley in Staffordshire and Worcestershire, all from Old English hean, the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of heah ‘high’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from Handley Farm in Clayhanger, Devon, which is named from Old English han ‘(boundary) stone’ + leah.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 704,244 Historical Documents with Hanley on Ancestry
- 253,434 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 181,004 Census and Voter Lists
- 32,709 Military Records
- 32,407 Immigration Records
- 204,690 Member Trees
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Number of Hanley families
 395 - 788  132 - 394 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hanley families
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320 - 637 107 - 319 |
1 - 106 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hanley families
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49 - 96 17 - 48 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hanley 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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- 739
- Confederate
- 222
- Union
- 517
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