Hartley Family History
- Hartley Name Meaning
- English (mainly northern): habitational name from any of various places so called. Several, in particular those in Hampshire, Kent, and Devon, are named from Old English heorot ‘hart’, ‘stag’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. One in Northumberland has as the second element Old English hlaw ‘hill’, and one in Cumbria contains Old English cla ‘claw’, in the sense of a tongue of land between two streams, + probably heard ‘hard’. The surname is widely distributed, but most common in Yorkshire, where it arose from a place near Haworth, West Yorkshire, also named with Old English heorot + leah. As a Scottish name, it comes from the Cumbrian Hartley (see forebears note). Irish: shortened Anglicized form of or surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art ‘bear’, ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Hartley families
 173 - 344  58 - 172 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hartley families
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4,018 - 8,034 1,340 - 4,017 |
1 - 1,339 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hartley families
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53 - 103 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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