When Jeremiah Farley was born in 1800, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Stephen Farley, was 38 and his mother, Mary Mitchell, was 33. He married Martha Pigg before 1825, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in White, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Davis Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1860. He died about 1890, at the age of 91.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Farley, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Wiltshire, Shropshire, and Sussex. From Old English fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farleigh , Fairley , Fairlie .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghaile (see Farrelly ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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