Lees (surname)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lees
Language(s)English
Origin
Language(s)English
Meaning"open place"

Lees is a surname meaning "open place" and deriving from several locations in England in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire.[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

The Lees family of Oldham[edit]

Lees is a small suburb of Oldham located on the old Lancashire-Yorkshire border. The name Lees is an old Saxon word for the field systems that developed in this locality. lees meaning literally 'field'.

In this area of South East Lancashire along with Oldham many former cotton producing towns such as Bolton, Bury, Middleton, Royton, Crompton and Chadderton, there are many families who still bear the name of Lees. A Lees Hall once stood on the outskirts of Oldham which was demolished in the mid nineteenth century and unfortunately there are no surviving images. The Parish records of the town are littered with name of Lees dating back to the fourteenth century.

Given name[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Surname Database: Lees Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 2021-04-24.