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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Annesley Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, or from Ansley in Warwickshire. The first is named from an unattested Old English personal name Ān + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. (The affix Woodhouse is a later, medieval addition.) The second is from Old English ānsetl ‘hermitage’ + lēah.

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