Last name: WORSLEY
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WORSLEY : This last name is indexed 50,261 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WORSLEY : English (Lancashire): habitational name from Worsley in Lancashire or Worsley Farm in Rock (Worcestershire). The Lancashire placename may derive from an Old English personal name Weorcgȳth (genitive Weorcgȳthes) + Old English lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’. The Worcestershire placename may take its name from a lost stream-name Worf + Old English lēah.
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