Släkthistoria för Yellowley
Yellowley Vad efternamn betyder
of uncertain origin. Black tentatively identifies it with a place in Bandrum near Saline Fife recorded as ylalwleche in a 13th-century charter (Dunfermline Register ). This may be from (a garbled form of) Older Scots yallow ‘yellow’ + the local word latch ‘stream’.alternatively it may be an altered form of an obsolete Scottish surname Yalulok ‘yellow locks’ a nickname for someone with yellow hair.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
