The ancient roots of the Oksley family name are in the Anglo-Saxon culture. The name Oksley comes from when the family lived in the parish of Bysshebury in Staffordshire, where they held lands and a family seat at Oxley. Oksley 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.
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Early Origins of the Oksley family
The surname Oksley 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.
Early History of the Oksley family
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Oksley Spelling Variations
One relatively recent invention that did much to standardize English spelling was the printing press. However, before its invention even the most literate people recorded their names according to sound rather than spelling. The spelling variations under which the name Oksley has appeared include Oxley, Oxly, Oxleigh and others.
Early Notables of the Oksley family
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Migration of the Oksley family
At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Oksley arrived in North America very early: Elizabeth Oxley her husband Thomas and daughter settled in Portsmouth Virginia in 1820; Thomas and Margaret Oxley settled in Maryland in 1731; William Oxley settled in New Jersey in 1677..
