Last name: WIGLEY
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WIGLEY : This last name is indexed 29,072 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WIGLEY : English: habitational name from Wigley in Brampton (Derbyshire) or Wigley in Copythorne (Hampshire) both of which are named from the Old English personal name Wicga (meaning ‘beetle insect’) or Old English wigga ‘beetle insect’ + lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’.
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