Henley Family History
- Henley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. Most, for example those in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, and Warwickshire, are named with Old English héan (the weak dative case of heah ‘high’, originally used after a preposition and article) + Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. Others, for example one near Ludlow in Shropshire, have as their first element Old English henn ‘hen’, ‘wild bird’. Others still, for example those in Somerset and Surrey, are ambiguous between the two possibilities. In Ireland, Henley is used for Hennelly, and sometimes for Hanley. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Henle.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 919,070 Historical Documents with Henley on Ancestry
- 216,091 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 150,413 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,737 Military Records
- 13,843 Immigration Records
- 511,986 Member Trees
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Number of Henley families
 345 - 687  116 - 344 |
 1 - 115  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Henley families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Henley 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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