Last name: DARLEY

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DARLEY : This last name is indexed 33,213 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

DARLEY : English: habitational name from one or more of the places called Darley such as Darley Hall in Worsborough and Darley in Menwith cum Darley (Yorkshire) Darley (alias Darley Dale) near Bakewell and Darley Abbey (both Derbyshire) Darley Hall in Over by Middlewich (Cheshire) a lost Derleigh in Little Bromley (Essex) Durley (Hampshire) and Durleigh (Somerset). From Old English dēor ‘beast deer’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.

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