Last name: CROSSLEY
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CROSSLEY : This last name is indexed 80,807 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CROSSLEY : English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Crossley in Mirfield Yorkshire named from Old English cros ‘cross’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived at a clearing with a cross from Middle English cros + lei(e).
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