Släkthistoria för Ketley
Ketley Vad efternamn betyder
from Ketley in Wellington (Shrops). The place-name is recorded as Cattelegh' and Ketteleg' in 1271–2 and derives from an uncertain initial element + Old English lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’. Families with this name may have migrated to Kent and Essex unless bearers of the name there belong at (2). DNA testing has shown that most present-day men with the name descend from a single common ancestor. in SW England also a variant of Kitley.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
