Last name: WRIGLEY
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WRIGLEY : This last name is indexed 50,755 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WRIGLEY : English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Wrigley Head near Salford (Lancashire) the second element of which is presumably Old English lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’; the first may be a personal name or topographic term from Old English wrigian ‘to strive to bend or turn’.
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