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Oxley
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Origin Of The Surname Oxley
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Meaning Of The Surname Oxley
From the Town with the Ox
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Interesting
Facts About
Oxley
Oxley is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from a combination of the Old English words oxa and leah meaning ox and a cleared area. Therefore towns with this name would have originally have had an area of land cleared for ox to live. |
Oxley Statistics
Oxley is the number 1700 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,258 share the surname Oxley in the UK.
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