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Where did the English Morley family come from? What is the English Morley family crest and coat of arms? When did the Morley family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Morley family history?
The Morley name is habitational, derived from any of the several places so named; such as Morley in Cheshire, Derbyshire, County Durham, Norfolk, and West Yorkshire, and Moreleigh in Devon. These place names come from the Old English words "mor," meaning "marsh" and "le-ah," meaning "a clearing in the woods."
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- First settlers to North America
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Only recently has spelling become standardized in the English language. As the English language evolved in the Middle Ages, the spelling of names changed also. The name Morley has undergone many spelling variations, including Morley, Mawley, Morely, Moorley, Maughley, Morleigh, Moorley and many more.First found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor and original from Ufton in Berkshire. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year of Edward III when Richard Morley held lands.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Morley research. Another 399 words(28 lines of text) covering the years 1411, 1455, 1477, 1483, 1487, 1510, 1557, 1600, and 1602 are included under the topic Early Morley History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Morley. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Morley were among those contributors:
Morley Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Catherine Morley, who came to Salem in 1630
- Henry Morley, who arrived in Virginia in 1635
- Henry Morley, aged 25, landed in Virginia in 1635
- Symon Morley, who landed in Virginia in 1636
- Walter Morley, who landed in Maryland in 1638
Morley Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Mary Morley, a convict sent to America in 1749
- Ann Morley, who settled in America in 1766
- Isabella Morley, who settled with her husband in Boston in 1767
Morley Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Luke Morley, who landed in New York in 1831
- George Morley, aged 29, arrived in Alabama in 1855
- Frederick, John, Michael, Thomas, and William Morley, who all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860
- Valentine Morley, who arrived in Mississippi in 1860
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- Felix Morley (1894-1982), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Sylvanus Morley (1883-1948), American archaeologist, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar
- Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1958), American journalist, novelist, and poet
- Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923), American chemist
- Frank Morley (1860-1937), English mathematician
- Henry Morley (1822-1894), English writer
- John Morley (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor
- Samuel Morley (1809-1886), English woollen manufacturer
- Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (1908-1992), Oscar-nominated English actor
- Angela Morley (1925-2009), British composer and conductor
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- The Morleys-Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier by Norman Cleaveland.
- Ancestors And Descendants of Timothy Crosby Jr. by Paul Wesley Prindle.
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- Papworth, J.W and A.W Morant. Ordinary of British Armorials. London: T.Richards, 1874. Print.
- Bardsley, C.W. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6).
- Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
- Shaw, William A. Knights of England A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, Ireland and Knights Bachelors 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print. (ISBN 080630443X).
- Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
- Ingram, Rev. James. Translator Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1823. Print.
- Dunkling, Leslie. Dictionary of Surnames. Toronto: Collins, 1998. Print. (ISBN 0004720598).
- Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
- Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3).
- Elster, Robert J. International Who's Who. London: Europa/Routledge. Print.
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