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The name Oxlade is an old Anglo-Saxon name. It comes from when a family lived in the parish of Bysshebury in Staffordshire, where they held lands and a family seat at Oxley. Oxlade is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. In this case the original bearers of the surname were the dwellers near the ox-meadow.
The surname Oxlade was first found in Staffordshire where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
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Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Oxlade were recorded, including Oxley, Oxly, Oxleigh and others.
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