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Langley One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Langley

Variants: Langely, Langly

Category:  1 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is in its early stages.

Contact: Mr Aidan Langley


About the study

The purpose of my study is to collect and share information about the Langleys of Northamptonshire, England and adjacent counties.

Langley is a fairly common surname, and we know from DNA testing that there are at least 13 genetically different Langley families. For that reason I have chosen to focus on my own family - the Langleys of Northamptonshire.

However, over the years I have collected information about Langleys from around the world and I correspond regularly with Langleys from other families. So if you have questions about Langley, please let me know and I will do my best to help.

Variant names

I am also interested in variants of Langley, such as Langly, Langely and Langlie,

Name origin

The Dictionary of American Family Names (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4) lists the following three potential sources for the LANGLEY surname:

  1. Habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English lang '€˜long'€™ + leah '€˜wood'€™, '€˜glade'€™; or a topographic name with the same meaning.
  2. English: from the Old Norse female personal name Langlí­f, composed of the elements lang '€˜long'€™ + lí­f '€˜life'€™.
  3. Americanised spelling of French Langlais

Historical occurrences of the name

A famous medieval Langley is Thomas Langley (1363-1437), Chancellor to several Lancastrian kings and Bishop of Durham. A biography of him by Ian Sharman is worth reading (ISBN 0-953-7657-0-9).

More recently, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute and a pioneer of manned flight.

Data

I have much information, particularly about the Langleys of Northamptonshire and adjacent counties.

DNA

The Langley Surname DNA Project has its own site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Langley_Surname/.

Links

I have set up a website to store and share information about the Langleys of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. This is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nthwkslangley.

Please also visit the site for our Langley neighbours in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk which is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/langley-cambridge-suffolk/

Contact Details

Mr Aidan Langley

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Langley in the Guild Indexes
(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)
  • Marriages of the World (public)  46
  • Inscriptions Index  5
  • Modern Newspaper Index  21
  • Marriage Index 1837-1945* 1534
  • Probate Index* 128
  • World Wide Marriages Index* 46
  • BMD Index* 472
  • Members' Data Stores in which the name Langley appears* 35

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