Oxley is a name and may refer to number of things. Oxley is an English surname. Oxley may also refer to Oxley, a suburb of Wolverhampton. Oxley, a Village in New South Wales, Australia. Other places named Oxley in Australia can be found in Queensland and Victoria.
If you are asking about John Joseph Oxley, the British and Australian explorer, he was the eldest son of John Oxley and his wife Isabella.
The proud and noble English surname of Oxley can be discovered in the early records of Staffordshire, where they had held lands and a family seat in the parish of Bysshebury, at Oxley. They name itself derives from the ancient Anglo-Saxons who bestowed it upon persons living near "the ox-meadow". Some of the family moved to New Jersey in the Americas in the 1670s.
Perks is a British surname dating from the medieval times.
Many places have been named after explorer John Oxley. They include: * The Oxley Highway in New South Wales * The town of Oxley, NSW * Oxley Island on the NSW north coast * The Federal electorate of Oxley (Queensland) * NSW Electoral district of Oxley * Oxley Wild Rivers National Park * Oxley Creek (Qld) * Suburbs of Oxley, Qld and Oxley, Australian Capital Territory * The John Oxley Library, which is part of the State Library of Queensland
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wouldn't it be British?
British, originally.
Mark Rice Oxley and Tim Rice Oxley are first cousins. Their fathers are brothers.
The name Sterling is British in origin.