Last name: HORSLEY
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HORSLEY : This last name is indexed 54,956 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HORSLEY : English (Northeastern England): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hors ‘horse’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ such as Horsley (Derbyshire Gloucestershire) Long Horsley (Northumberland) and Horseley Hills Farm in Wolverley (Worcestershire) probably referring to a place where horses were put out to pasture.
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