<Tr> <Th> Word / Name </Th> <Td> "heal" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Meaning </Th> <Td> "hall" </Td> </Tr> <P> Halley is a surname of English origin, meaning: one who lived at, or near the hall in the grove or open place in a wood . The derivation is probably from the Olde English pre 7th Century use of Old English heall' hall',' large house' + leah' woodland clearing '. following enforced land clearances . At the height of the wool industry in the 14th Century, whole villages in Derbyshire, were cleared to make way for sheep pastures . Combined with the later 18th century Highland Clearances it is estimated that there are between seven and ten thousand such villages that have disappeared from British maps . Following the introduction of personal taxation in the 13th century, in England, surnames became required . The earliest recorded use of the surname Halley is held in the village of Beeley, Derbyshire, England, for a witness called Georgii Halley, dated 27 January 1538 . the Beeley Parish church records show an Anna Halley, who was christened on the 27 December 1577 and an Elizabeth Halley who married John Caleshaw on 13 August 1567 . </P> <Ul> <Li> Antoine Halley (1593--1675), French poet </Li> <Li> Dave Halley (born 1986), English rugby league player </Li> <Li> Edmond Halley (1656--1742), English Astronomer Royal </Li> <Li> George Halley (1887--??), Scottish footballer </Li> <Li> Heather Halley, American actress </Li> <Li> Henry Hampton Halley (1874--1965), author of Halley's Bible Handbook </Li> <Li> Ina Halley (1927--1992), German actress </Li> <Li> Janet Halley (born 1952), American legal scholar </Li> <Li> Patrick F. Halley (1895 - 1956), merchant and politician in Newfoundland (now part of Canada) </Li> <Li> Paul Halley (born 1952), English musician </Li> <Li> Paul - Louis Halley (1934--2003), French businessman </Li> <Li> Peter Halley (born 1953), American abstract painter </Li> <Li> Rich Halley (born 1947), American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer </Li> <Li> Robert Halley (1796--1876), English non-conformist minister, educationalist and abolitionist </Li> <Li> Rudolph Halley (1913--1956), American politician and attorney </Li> <Li> Rufus Halley (1944?--2001), Catholic missionary </Li> <Li> Victor Halley (born 1904), nationalist trade unionist in Northern Ireland </Li> </Ul>

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