Last name: BURLEY
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BURLEY : This last name is indexed 68,642 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BURLEY : 1: English: habitational name from any of various places called Burley for example in Hampshire Rutland Shropshire and Yorkshire from Old English burh ‘fortified manor stronghold’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.2: English: variant of Birley.3: Americanized form of Swiss German Bürli: from a diminutive of būr ‘peasant farmer’ (see Bauer).
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