Last name: BRIERLEY
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BRIERLEY : This last name is indexed 48,872 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRIERLEY : English: habitational name Brierley in Felkirk (Yorkshire) or less often Brierley in Staffordshire which are named with Old English brǣr ‘briar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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