Oxley Family History
Oxley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Ox Lee in Hepworth (Yorkshire) or from other places called Oxley such as that in Staffordshire. The placenames derive from Old English oxa ‘ox’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Possibly also an Americanized form of South German Öchsle (see Oechsle ). Compare Axley .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022