When Roger Leigh was born about 1486, in High Legh, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Philip de Leigh, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Brereton, was 15. He had at least 1 daughter.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places (in at least sixteen counties, but especially Leigh in Lancashire) named either with the nominative case of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’ (see Lee ) or with lēage, a late dative form of this word (see Lye ).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 李, based on its Cantonese pronunciation. See Li 1.
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