The Casly name has descended through the generations from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. Their name comes from having lived in the settlement of Kearsley in Lancashire. The surname Casly belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxonhabitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
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Early Origins of the Casly family
The surname Casly was first found in Lancashire at Kearsley, now part of Greater Manchester. The first records of the place were found in 1187 when it was spelt Cherselawe and a few years later as Kereleie (c. 1220. ) The name literally means "clearing where cress grows" having derived from the Old English words caerse + leah. 1 There is another Kearsley, a township in the parish of Stamfordham, in Northumberland, but this township has remained rather small in comparison as a census in the late 1800s listed only 11 inhabitants, while the former township in Lancashire had 3,436 inhabitants in the same census.
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Early History of the Casly family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Casly research. Another 87 words (6 lines of text) covering the year 1210 is included under the topic Early Casly History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Casly Spelling Variations
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 Casly has undergone many spelling variations, including Kearsley, Kearsey, Keasley, Kersley and others.
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Early Notables of the Casly family
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Migration of the Casly family
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 Casly were among those contributors: James Kearsley settled in Philadelphia in 1859.
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