
Bickley Name Meaning English: habitational name from any of the places called Bickley, in Worcestershire, Cheshire, and Kent, or Bickleigh in Devon, all of which are possibly named with an Old English personal name Bicca + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. The first element could alternatively be an Old English word, bic ‘pointed ridge’.
Our family line in Australia started with William Henry Bickley who was born in Brighton, England in 1830 and died in Coleraine, Victoria. He was married to Mary Toomey in Portland, Victoria in 1854.