Rae - Wise Protection - English
O’Hanley - Meadow on the cliff - Celtic/Gaelic
Cassandra - Prophetess - Greek
Dea - Goddess - Greek
Marek - Warlike - Polish
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Handley is an English place name from any of the so-named locations as in Cheshire, Derbyshire, etc. which derived their names from Old English heah = high + leah = wood, clearing. Occasionally, when of Irish origin, it is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Ó hÁinle , meaning descendant of Ainle, whose name meant Champion. Henley, Hanly are variations of the English version, and O'Hanley, O'Hanly, O'Hanlee are forms of the Irish.
Some of the first settlers of my family name or some of its variants were: Thomas Hanley, who sailed to Maryland in 1685. William Hanley sailed to North Carolina in 1701; Patrick Hanley to Philadelphia in 1838; James and Betty Hanley to New York State in 1847