When Alcy Lindley was born in 1855, in Cedar, Missouri, United States, her father, Jacob Lindley, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Kennedy, was 23. She lived in Washington Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States for about 10 years.
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English: habitational name chiefly from two places in Yorkshire called Lindley, one near Otley and another near Huddersfield. In other parts of England it may be from any of the places called Lindley in Leicestershire or Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire. The Wiltshire, Shropshire and Huddersfield names derive from līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘wood, glade’. The Otley and Leicestershire names derive from lind ‘lime’ + lēah ‘wood’. Possibly also a topographic name for someone residing near a lime-wood or a clearing where flax was grown.
German: topographic name from Lindle or Lindlein for someone living near a small linden (lime tree) stand.
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