When Leonard Hawley was born on 13 November 1888, in Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Hawley, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth James, was 29. He married Lydia Harriet Potter in 1912, in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 1985, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 97.
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English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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