Howley Family History
- Howley Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Cheshire, Gloucestershire, and West Yorkshire. The first is from a lost place in Lower Bebington, named from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + weg ‘way’; the second is from Old English hol + leah ‘woodland clearing’; and the last, Howley Hall in Moreley, is from Old English hofe ‘ground ivy’ + leah. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUallaigh ‘descendant of Uallach’, a personal name or byname from uallach ‘proud’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Howley families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Howley families
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22 - 41 8 - 21 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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