This is the companion website for two work-in-progress Morley genealogies:

• The Morley Families of Halifax, West Yorkshire by J.A.E. Morley and C.S.B. Morley.
• The Morley Families of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire by C.S.B. Morley.

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For more information, please send a brief note to the corresponding author.

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The Morley Families of Halifax, West Yorkshire

This 700-page book features eight Morley family groups with ties to the Halifax/Calderdale area. The earliest group dates the 1670s. At last count, there are over 1750 individuals, of which more than 500 were born with the surname Morley. In all, 233 unique last names.

This preview features the immediate family of John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn. His grandfather hailed from Mytholmroyd in the ancient parish of Halifax.

Descendants have spread to places as diverse as

• co. Waterford, Ireland
• Victoria and Tasmania
• Ontario and British Columbia
• South Africa
• Portugal

numerous US states

• Texas
• Illinois
• Missouri
• Tennessee
• Arizona
• California
• Montana
• Michigan
• Florida

as well as - closer to home - all over Yorkshire

• Bradford
• Ilkley
• Morley and Churwell in Leeds
• Eccleshill
• Upperthong
• Pontefract
• Hemsworth
• Wakefield

and all over Lancashire

• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool
• Blackburn
• Rochdale
• Accrington
• Todmorden
• Ormskirk

not to mention Greater London.

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The Morley Families of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire

13,000 individuals, and counting.

The Lancashire volume outlines the myriad Morley family groups in

• Clitheroe
• Whalley
• Wennington
• Billington
• Lancaster
• Wyresdale
• Melling
• Cockerham
• Ellel
• Pilling
• Garstang
• Preston
• Kirkham
• Liverpool
• Greater Manchester
• Blackburn
• Accrington

Complementing Kenneth C. Morley's Some Morleys of South-west Lancashire : a genealogy.

The second volume focuses on the former West Riding of Yorkshire, with partial coverage of the Ainsty and remainder of Yorkshire. Hotspots include:

• Calverley
• Doncaster
• Rotherham
• Darfield
• Conisbrough
• Pontefract
• Kellington
• Ackworth
• Cumberworth
• Skelmanthorpe
• Emley
• Batley
• Bingley
• Leeds
• Rothwell
• Swillington
• Kippax
• Newton Kyme
• Tadcaster
• Cawood
• Wistow
• Monk Fryston
• Selby
• Brayton
• Gateforth
• Hemingbrough
• Drax
• Rawcliffe
• Adlingfleet
• Normanby
• Collingham and Knaresborough
• York
• Stillington
• Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

There is also growing coverage of Morley families from: