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Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 26, 2006 23:29:42 GMT
Hayley means a lot to all of us but did you knoe that the name "Hayley" means:
A high clearing or meadow
Ingenious
From the hay meadow
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Post by Joe on Feb 27, 2006 2:45:09 GMT
Hi Steve M
"Hayley" was derived from a surname which was originally the name of a town in England
Yeah, the hay meadow that you mentioned comes from Old English hegleah ("hay clearing/meadow").
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Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 27, 2006 4:54:37 GMT
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Post by Richard on Feb 27, 2006 8:56:23 GMT
Hello everybody!  The first Hayley I ever heard of was actress Hayley Mills, born 1946, daughter of John Mills who named her after his wife, novellist Mary Hayley Bell. In Mary's case, Hayley was not her second forename, but the first half of a double-barrelled surname without a hyphen. Other examples are Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber. This may have been the first time Hayley was used as a Christian name, but I don't know for certain. Best Wishes, Richard  |
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Post by roger on Feb 27, 2006 19:28:33 GMT
Actually Richard, I once heard that Ms Mills was the first person to be named Hayley but I wasn't sure if it was true. As you are thinking along the same lines, it may be.
Roger
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Post by Dave on Feb 26, 2009 2:02:42 GMT
In the " Is she getting too good?" thread:I also saw my first Hayley then, but it was the adorable Hayley Mills.. Hi Paul, Yes yes, I too was a Hayley fan, that Hayley I mean, about 30 years before "our" Hayley was born. I think I'm safe in saying that Hayley Mills was everyone's first Hayley. It had never before, as far as I can tell, and as speculated by Roger and Richard above (a few years ago!) been used as a girl's main first name.... but see below.  Hayley Mills made it famous single handed, well perhaps with a little help from her parents! Hayley Mills herself discussed it briefly in a magazine interview with Boston Phoenix in July 2003, and this has been reproduced here , I will quote the relevant section below. Note the article title! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifWell, "Hayley Mills was born to actor John Mills and playwright Mary Hayley Bell on April 18, 1946, in London, England. Her full name is Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills." and it appears that she may indeed be the very first female "Hayley" as a first forename. But how can we check? Well, 35 years before her birth, there was a UK National census and this is now available online at www.1911census.co.uk/ . A quick search for the first name "Hayley" reveals 23 matches. Of these, seven had "Hayley" listed first, i.e as the main "forename". All seven were male! So it seems that Hayley Mills is right... it was originally a male forename and she may well have been the very first female "Hayley" (at least, in the UK - but it may have spread elsewhere from there). One other thing I found fascinating is that with only 23 "hits" in 1911, and seven as the first "forename", it was a rare name indeed - as a first name (but a lot more common as a surname). And now, after 62 years of Hayley Mills,  it has grown to become a popular girls name in many Countries - but it isn't even listed at all as a boy's name now, at www.babynames.co.uk  although some sites such as www.bounty.com/babynames still do show it as a boy's name too, far down the rankings - below no. 4,000 last year. So there we have it. Not a lot of people know all that!  Cheers, Dave
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Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 26, 2009 2:53:16 GMT
Hard to believe I started this thread exactly three years ago today.
I wonder how many baby girls in the last few years have been given the name Hayley because of Ms. Westenra. Surely there must be a few.
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Post by Richard on Feb 26, 2009 8:31:37 GMT
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Post by postscript on Feb 27, 2009 20:44:57 GMT
Hi Dave. Thank you for a fascinating background to Hayley's name. In part of your presentation I relived some of my own background in the mementos I gathered about Hayley in my teen years. Suddenly I realise I am reliving them with the Hayley named after her! I wonder how many more on this site can parallel our experiences?
Peter S.
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Post by roger on Feb 27, 2009 21:01:11 GMT
My earliest memory of Hayley Mills was in the 1965 Disney film, 'That Darned Cat'. Here is a publicity shot:  Photo: reelclassics.comQuoted from 'In Her Own Voice': Maybe they saw the same film as I did! Actually, I was only eleven at the time and, frankly, I was more interested in the cat!  Roger |
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Post by postscript on Feb 27, 2009 22:09:36 GMT
My earliest memory of Hayley Mills was in the 1965 Disney film, 'That Darned Cat'. Here is a publicity shot: Photo: reelclassics.comQuoted from 'In Her Own Voice': Maybe they saw the same film as I did! Actually, I was only eleven at the time and, frankly, I was more interested in the cat! Roger Here I go once more into troubled waters by developing an aside through diverse viewpoints! I must be back in an 'up' phase! I first became a permanent follower of Hayley Mills from Pollyana. Before then, I believe her film debut was Tiger Bay in which she played a role with her father, now renamed, contrary to local acceptance, as Cardigan Bay [the area not the film], not far from Cardiff. What remains for me as her most triumphant film is Whistle Down the Wind, written by her mother Mary Hayley Bell (interestingly in another post, Roger, you hyphenated that as a double-baralled surname which is not how I have ever seen it! Until your post of what 'Hayley' means I had always thought it was a forename of her mother. Fairly soon after Pollyana she played the double role of twins in TheParent Trap which i was very sorry to hear had been recently re-made. Her version is definitely period and I have to confess that Lindsey Lohan's version is modern and the updating has been handled very well. To go further is pushing things but I have been delighted with seeing Hayley (and her elder sister Juliet) on TV in Leopard's DenDid you follow her career later on, Roger? She did at least one play in London, which I missed but a few years ago I saw her on tour at Milton Keynes. Unfortunately I had my elderly father with me, so it was not possible to do what before meeting with (our) Hayley I would never have dreamed of doing, going to the stage door. That is now on my agenda! Peter S. |
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Post by comet on Feb 27, 2009 22:24:02 GMT
Ha ! Ha ! I just fell in love with Hayley Mills when I first saw The Parent Trap at the cinema, I think I was about six or seven at the time and I liked one of the "Twins" more than the other. I didn't cop at the time that they were the same person Oh to be seven again and so easily fooled  |
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Post by comet on Feb 27, 2009 22:25:08 GMT
Hayley means a lot to all of us but did you knoe that the name "Hayley" means: A high clearing or meadow Ingenious From the hay meadow The hills are alive with the sound of music sort of meadow ? |
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Post by scoobedoo on Feb 27, 2009 22:26:29 GMT
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Post by martindn on Feb 27, 2009 23:48:38 GMT
Quoted from 'In Her Own Voice': Maybe they saw the same film as I did! Actually, I was only eleven at the time and, frankly, I was more interested in the cat! Roger Hi Roger, There is more than one way to skin this cat. Quoted from "The World at Her Feet" Now, which do you believe? Martin |
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