Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Pashley in the parish of Ticehurst, Sussex, named with an unattested Old English personal name Pæcca or Pacca (see Packham) + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. A district of Eastbourne, Sussex, bearing this name derives it from the surname; a family called Pashley had moved there from Ticehurst by the later part of the 13th century.
- English : possibly a variant of Parsley. The surname now occurs chiefly in southern Yorkshire.