Varley Family History
- Varley Name Meaning
- habitational name from Varley or Varleys in Devon, or any of the other places in southwestern England named in Old English as ‘fern clearing’ (see Farley), the change from f to v arising from voicing of f which is characteristic of that area. (of Norman origin) habitational name from Verly in Aisne, Picardy, France, so named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Virilius + the locative suffix -acum, or from Vesly (La Manche); surnames of this origin are recorded in Suffolk from the 13th century. However, the overwhelming preponderence of the modern surname is in West Yorkshire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 367,102 Historical Documents with Varley on Ancestry
- 149,933 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 103,230 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,628 Military Records
- 8,374 Immigration Records
- 97,937 Member Trees
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Number of Varley families
 1,093 - 2,183  365 - 1,092 |
 1 - 364  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Varley families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Varley 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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