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CALEY Family History

Recorded in a range of spellings including Cayley, Caley, Calley, Kayley and Kaley, this is a surname of either English, French or Manx origins. It may be French and locational, from the town of Cailly in the departement of Seine-Inferieure, in Normandy, or if English and locational, from the hamlet of Cayley, (meaning Caega's farm) in the parish of Winwick in the county of Lancashire. If the origin is Manx from the Isle of Man, then the origin is from the ancient Gaelic Mac Caolidhe, which translates as "the son of the slender one", the latter being the nickname for the first chief of the clan possibly in the 10th century.