When William Hawley was born in 1815, his father, Joseph Hawley, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Bonsall, was 20. He married Mary Gilman on 27 July 1841, in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Hartington, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Monyash, Derbyshire, England in 1901.
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English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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