Last name: BARDSLEY
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BARDSLEY : This last name is indexed 31,536 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BARDSLEY : English:: 1: habitational name from Bardsley in Ashton under Lyne Lancashire so named from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Beornrēd (composed of the elements beorn ‘young warrior’ + rǣd ‘counsel advice’) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.2: perhaps also a variant of Barnsley a habitational name from Barnsley in Gloucestershire since the early records of the placename show variation between spellings in Barnes- Barndes- and Bardes-.
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