Harley Family History
- Harley Name Meaning
- English (now mainly in Scotland; also West Midlands and Welsh border): habitational name from places in Shropshire and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ or hara ‘hare’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. In some cases the name may be topographic. Irish: when not of English origin, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the personal name Fearghal without the initial F- (see Farrell).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 637,015 Historical Documents with Harley on Ancestry
- 203,948 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 160,400 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,480 Military Records
- 22,832 Immigration Records
- 229,355 Member Trees
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Number of Harley families
 436 - 869  146 - 435 |
 1 - 145  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harley families
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35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Harley census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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