When John Harley was born on 31 July 1833, in North Wales, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Sauer Harley, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Kemper Markley, was 33. He married Susan K. Moyer on 2 April 1857. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in New Britain Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 14 November 1908, at the age of 75, and was buried in North Wales, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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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