Betterley Family History
- Betterley Name Meaning
- English: probably a variant of Betteley, from a place called Betley, of which there is one in Staffordshire and another in Sussex, the former being named from an Old English female personal name Bette + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 11,372 Historical Documents with Betterley on Ancestry
- 3,088 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,654 Census and Voter Lists
- 425 Military Records
- 147 Immigration Records
- 6,058 Member Trees
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Number of Betterley families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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