Last name origins & meanings:
- English and Scottish: habitational name from Ansley in Warwickshire
or Annesley in Nottinghamshire (see Ansley). The modern surname
is found chiefly in the border regions of Scotland and northern
England, having been taken north from England to Scotland in the
Middle Ages, probably by a Norman baron.
- The poet Hew Ainslie (1792–1878) emigrated from Ayrshire,
Scotland, to the U.S. in 1822 and became a prominent citizen of
Louisville, KY.
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