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The Anglo-Saxon name Cordingley comes from when the family resided in Yorkshire, in a town called either Cordonley or Cotingley. It was rendered in the Domesday Book as Cotingeley, so the name of the now vanished town was probably Cotingley, but scholars disagree on this. The place-name is derived from two sources; Coting was an old English personal name, and ley was a suffix that meant field or meadow. The name as a whole meant "Coting's field."
The surname Cordingley was first found in Yorkshire, where they seated from the Middle Ages.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cordingley research. Another 36 words (3 lines of text) covering the years 1379, 1795 and 1803 are included under the topic Early Cordingley History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore,spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Cordingley has been recorded under many different variations, including Cordingley, Cordonlay and others.
More information is included under the topic Early Cordingley Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Cordingley or a variant listed above: