Barley Family History
- Barley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places called Barley. Those in Lancashire and West Yorkshire are named with Old English bar ‘wild boar’ or bere ‘barley’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. A place of the same name in Hertfordshire has as its first element an unattested Old English byname Be(o)ra (from bera ‘bear’). English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of barley, from Old English bærlic, originally an adjective derivative of bær ‘barley’ (a byform of bere). Altered spelling of South German Behrle or Beerli, from a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’ (the animal).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 457,785 Historical Documents with Barley on Ancestry
- 100,346 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 119,320 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,290 Military Records
- 9,342 Immigration Records
- 220,487 Member Trees
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Number of Barley families
 369 - 735  124 - 368 |
 1 - 123  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barley families
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20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Barley census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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