Släkthistoria för Childerley
Childerley Vad efternamn betyder
from Childerley in Cambs. The place-name may have denoted ‘the woodland clearing of the young men (or male heirs)’ from cildra the genitive plural of Old English cild ‘child young man’ + Old English lēah. Domesday Book records that before the Conquest the estate was jointly held by four sokemen (free tenants).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
