Re: Blatchford and Blatchley

Chat

Daily Search

My GenForum

Community Standards

Terms of Service

Jump to Forum

Home: Surnames: Blatchley Family Genealogy Forum

Re: Blatchford and Blatchley
Posted by: Chuck Blatchley	Date: March 27, 1999 at 15:55:34
In Reply to: Blatchford and Blatchley by Debbie Bryson Blatchford	of 160

I believe both forms are Saxon rather than Scottish and relate to locales near London. The common root Blatch is from bletch, which means bleech or dyeing of cloth. Ley was a clearing in the woods, so Blatchley means the bleecher's clearing. The village of Blatchley has now been absorbed into London proper, but was the site in WWII where the famous code breaking was completed.

Chuck Blatchley

Followups:

Re: Blatchford and Blatchley Debbie Long 4/22/99 (0)

Re: Blatchford and Blatchley Debbie Long 4/22/99 (1)

Re: BLATCHFORD Forum Chris Dodd 8/18/99 (0)

BLATCHFORD ancestors Tor Welch 12/08/99

Re: BLATCHFORD Forum Wendy Anderson/nee Blatchford 10/04/99

Re: BLATCHFORD Forum Michael Blatchford 12/22/99

Re: BLATCHFORD Forum Josie Moen 2/24/00

Re: BLATCHFORD Forum Anne DeMarce 6/21/00

http://genforum.genealogy.com/blatchley/messages/16.html
Search this forum:	Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching
	Agreement of Use Link to GenForum Add Forum