When Margaret Oakley was born on 24 December 1712, in Stepney, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Oakley, was 34 and her mother, Katherine Eggline, was 39. She died on 20 May 1714, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom.
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from any of numerous places called Oakley, Oakle, or Oakleigh, in Bedfordshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Suffolk, or Wiltshire. The placenames derive from Old English āc ‘oak’ + lēah ‘open woodland’.
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