RILEY

RILEY. Probably derived from a place in Brittany, formerly called Rilley or Relay, the seat of an Abbey of Augustiniaus, in the diocese of Reunes. In the IJarish-registers of Newchurch, in Rossendale, CO. Lancaster, tlie name of the Rileys was almost uniformly spelt Rilaj', down to the middle of the XVI II. century. Inf. H. T. Riley, Esq.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.