When Jonathan Langley was born in 1605, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Langley, was 20 and his mother, Eleanor Bromley, was 17. He married Margaret Wrotesley in 1639, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 11 February 1671, in his hometown, at the age of 66.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Langley or Longley (in Kent, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Shrops, Lancashire, Durham, and many other counties), themselves from Old English lang ‘long’ + lēah ‘wood, glade, clearing’.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Langlif (Old Norse Langlíf ‘long’ + ‘life’ or ‘body’).
Americanized form of French Langlais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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