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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Somerset and Devon) : habitational name from Coxley, Somerset, named from Old English cōc ‘cook’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Mills notes that the wife of a cook of the royal household is recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as holding lands near Wells in Somerset.

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