When Thomas Lees was christened on 8 April 1787, in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Lees, was 46 and his mother, Mary Hudson, was 38. He was buried in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields, arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee ), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture, meadow’ (Old English lǣs).
English: habitational name fromLeece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from OldEnglish lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural oflēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably namedwith a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall, court, the principalhouse in a district’.
English: variant of Leece 1.
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