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Surname Etymology and Meaning of DUDLEY

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(origin: Local) A town in Worcestershire, England, so called from the old English Dode-ley, the place of the dead, a burying-ground. Dodelig, in the Danish, signifies pale, death-like, mortal; so also the Dutch Doodelijk, and German Todlich. Duv-da-lethe, in the Gaelic and Celtic, which has been corrupted to Dudley, has the same signification.

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