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Origins Available:
England

Today there are three villages and towns in Essex by the name Warley: Great Warley in the Brentwood borough; Little Warley, a hamlet in south Essex; and Warley, a suburb of Brentwood. It is from this area that this surname was derived. In West Yorkshire, Warley Town can be found, near Halifax and in the West Midlands, Warley is a place in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell.

Early Origins of the Warley family

The surname Warley was first found in Essex where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons. It was not uncommon to find a Baron, or a Bishop, with 60 or more Lordships scattered throughout the country. These he gave to his sons, nephews and other junior lines of his family and they became known as under-tenants. They adopted the Norman system of surnames which identified the under-tenant with his holdings so as to distinguish him from the senior stem of the family. After many rebellious wars between his Barons, Duke William, commissioned a census of all England to determine in 1086, settling once and for all, who held which land. He called the census the Domesday Book, 1 indicating that those holders registered would hold the land until the end of time. Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands of Warley, held by the Norman noble Humphrey from the Bishop of London who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086.

Early History of the Warley family

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Warley Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Warley, Warly, Warleigh, Warlea, Werley and others.

Early Notables of the Warley family

Outstanding amongst the family at this time was

the Warley family of Essex

Warley migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Warley Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Matthew Warley, who landed in Maryland in 1676 2

Warley Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Daniel Warley, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1740 2

Warley migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Warley Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century

Owen Warley, who was on record in Nova Scotia in 1783

Warley Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

George Warley, who was on record in the census of Ontario of 1871

Warley migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Warley Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Henry Warley, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Royal Admiral" in 1838 3
Mr. Matthew Warley, (b. 1831), aged 18, Cornish farm servant departing from Plymouth on 24th November 1848 travelling aboard the ship "Osprey" arriving in Port Henry, Geelong, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 2nd March 1849 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Warley (post 1700) +

Jared D. Warley, American politician, A.M.E. minister, farmer, judge, and state legislator in South Carolina from 1870 to 1874 and in the South Carolina Senate from 1874 to 1877
Benjamin Vallentina "Ben" Warley (1936-2002), American professional ABA basketball player
William Warley (1884-1946), American journalist, newspaper editor, and civil rights activist
Simon Nicholas Warley (b. 1972), English solicitor and former first-class cricketer for Oxford University (1991-1992)
Linda Warley, Canadian Professor English Language and Literature at University of Waterloo
Marx Warley Platzek (b. 1854), American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to New York State Constitutional Convention 11th District, 1894; Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904 5

Citations +

Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) ROYAL ADMIRAL 1838. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1838RoyalAdmiral.htm
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retreived 3rd May 2018). Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/emigration_australia_victoria.pdf
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 13) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html