Last name: WHALEY
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WHALEY : This last name is indexed 45,283 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHALEY : English (northern): habitational name from Whalley (Lancashire) or Whaley in Bolsover (Derbyshire). The Lancashire placename may derive from Old English hwæl ‘hill’ + lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English wall ‘wall’ walh ‘Welshman foreigner’ (genitive plural wala) or wælla ‘well spring stream’ + lēah.
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