When Harley was born on 18 January 1701, in Ditton Priors, Shropshire, England, her father, Rowland Harley, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Griffith, was 26. She was buried in Ditton Priors, Shropshire, England.
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English: habitational name from either of two places called Harley (Shropshire, Yorkshire). The Shropshire placename derives from Old English hær ‘rock, heap of stones’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename derives from Old English hara ‘hare’ or hær + hlāw ‘mound, hill’, later replaced by lēah.
Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the personal name Fearghal without the initial F-. This name has also become Herley and Hurley . Compare Arrell and Harrell .
Scottish (Fife): habitational name from any of several places called Harlaw in Midlothian, Peeblesshire, and Berwickshire, named in Older Scots with hare ‘gray’ + law ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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