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Wheatley
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Origin Of The Surname Wheatley
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Meaning Of The Surname Wheatley
From The Town By The Wheat Field
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Interesting
Facts About
Wheatley
Wheatley is a locational surname, from any of the places so-called across Britain. The place name is made up of the elements ‘Wheat’ and ‘leah’ meaning clearing and therefore referring to a clearing made for growing wheat. Towns next to such as place would have taken the name. Locational surnames were traditionally given to a newcomer in a town, where the townspeople assigned the name of the newcomer’s original residence as a surname to differentiate them. |
Wheatley Statistics
Wheatley is the number 779 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 12,549 share the surname Wheatley in the UK.
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