Last name: THORNLEY
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THORNLEY : This last name is indexed 37,390 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
THORNLEY : English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from Thornley in Lancashire and perhaps also from Thornyleigh near Heaton in Leek (Staffordshire) and Thornleigh in Huddersfield (Yorkshire). The Lancashire name derives from Old English thornede ‘thorny’ + lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’. The other placenames derive from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ or thornig ‘thorny’ + lēah.
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