Brierley

English: habitational name from any of the places called Brierl(e)y, in the West Midlands, West and South Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all of which are named with Old English br?r ‘briar’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

"Brierley Brierley rhymes with entirely, so why do we always, or nearly, get
BrEARley whenever our name is read out? Oh, it's not that important,not worth a discordant remark nor a pout,to make clear, still I find it strange that so many folk change, what is plainly an I to an EAR!"

Credit: Ronald Brierley, http://brierleytree.tribalpages.com/''

On another matter, I was lucky enough to be able to register the domain name brierley so if you go to http://brierley.com.au you can see my photography site.

This also means of course that I have the email with my first name and my last name as the domain. If anyone else would like to use my domain email server for the same reason please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Andrew Brierley