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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Gatley in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire), recorded in 1290 as Gateclyve, from Old English gāt ‘goat’ + clif ‘cliff’, ‘bank’.

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