Elizabeth Buckley was born about 1549, in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of George Buckley. She married Jerom Belson about 1575, in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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