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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Shackerley or Shakerley in Lancashire, so named from Old English scēacere ‘robber’ + lēah ‘clearing in a wood’, ‘glade’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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