When William Renard Fearnley was born in 1877, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Fearnley, was 23 and his mother, Eliza Jane, was 29. He married Mary Ann Polly Bruce on 25 April 1898, in Carbrook, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ripley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in March 1947, at the age of 70.
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English (Yorkshire): from any of various places called with Old English fearn ‘fern, bracken’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’, notably the Yorkshire places Farnley near Otley, Farnley near Armley, Farnley Tyas, Fearnley in Wyke, Fernley Hill in Altofts, and perhaps also Fernilee in Derbyshire.
English: variant of Farley .
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