Hockley Family History
- Hockley Name Meaning
- English (mainly Essex): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex and West Midlands. The former is so called from the Old English personal name Hocca or hocc ‘mallow’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; the latter from the personal name Hucca + hlaw ‘hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 170,273 Historical Documents with Hockley on Ancestry
- 52,322 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,749 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,544 Military Records
- 3,842 Immigration Records
- 54,816 Member Trees
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Number of Hockley families
 213 - 424  72 - 212 |
 1 - 71  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hockley families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hockley 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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