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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,260 Historical Documents with Pilley on Ancestry
- 14,360 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,817 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,347 Military Records
- 1,352 Immigration Records
- 19,384 Member Trees
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Number of Pilley families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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65 - 128 22 - 64 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- Union
- 2
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