When Herman Estel Townley was born on 9 February 1933, in Mechanicsburg, Bland, Virginia, United States, his father, Cecil Wagner Townley, was 30 and his mother, Elvira Elizabeth Kirby, was 31. He lived in Mechanicsburg District, Bland, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 27 April 1963, in Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Hoges Chapel Cemetery, Bland, Virginia, United States.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Towneley near Burnley in Lancashire, which is named with Middle English toun(e), ton(e) ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn) + leie ‘glade, clearing’. The surname has also been established in Ireland since the 16th century.
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