Horsley Family History
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Horsley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Surrey, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The reference is probably to a place where horses were put out to pasture. The surname is widespread in north-central England.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Worsley, Horsey, Housley, Hartley, Morley, Hockley, Thorley, Wortley