Hosley Family History
- Hosley Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of Swiss German Hösli or Hösly, or Swabian Hösle, metonymic occupational name for a maker of hose or leggings (see Hose 3), from a diminutive of Middle High German hose.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 43,267 Historical Documents with Hosley on Ancestry
- 14,821 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,368 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,701 Military Records
- 628 Immigration Records
- 17,749 Member Trees
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Number of Hosley families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hosley families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hosley census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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