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This page of the website aims to record the origins of the Audley and other similar surnames as listed in a number of publications. At some stage in the future I intend this page to come to a conclusion regarding the origin of the Audley surname. If you have any alternative or similar suggestions as to the origin of these surnames please submit them to the website through he contact page. A dictionary of English Surnames by P.H. Reaney
| | | | | | Audley | | English: habitation name from a place in Staffordshire so called from the Old English female name Ealdgyd (composed of eald meaning old+ gyd meaning battle) + Old English leah meaning wood, clearing
| | | | | | Audsley | | English: habitation name from an unidentified place (probably in Yorkshire, where the surname is most common), so called from the general case of an Old English personal name with the first (e)ald meaning old + Old English leah meaning wood, clearing
| | | | | County Families of Lancashire & Cheshire by James Croston FSA
| | | | Audley | | The following quotation is from Chapter 1 page 1 'The first known ancestor was a certain Adam de Audleigh or Aldithlega, so named from the paternal estate of Audithlegh in Normandy, who came over with William the Conqueror' | | | | |
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