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Surname Etymology and Meaning of AUDLEY

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(origin: Sax. Local) From ald or aud, old, and ley, a field or pasture--the old field.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from Audley in Staffordshire, named from the Old English female personal name Aldg¯th + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)