Last name: PRIESTLEY
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Last name frequency
PRIESTLEY : This last name is indexed 47,986 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PRIESTLEY : English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of the various minor places so named especially the one in North Yorkshire. These are named from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + lēah ‘wood clearing’ i.e. a wood or clearing belonging to the Church.
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