Fazakerley is the name of a town and family. It is a very old
English name, originating from the county of Lancaster (now
Lancashire), just North of the modern city of Liverpool.
Originally, Fazakerley was the name of a piece of land. As was
typical of the time, the name was later adopted by the family
that settled on the land as their surname. The name is
constructed from three Anglo-Saxon words, faes, acer and leah.
Faes means "border", acer means "cultivated land" and the
earliest meaning of leah is "clearing in a forest". Faes-acer
would be a piece of cultivated land against or defining some
border, so faes-acer-leah would be when the same land was
extended by woodland clearance. Similar English names are
Fazeley, a village in Staffordshire, constructed from the words
faes and leah, and Akeley, a village in Buckinghamshire,
constructed from the words aker and leah, The Anglo-Saxons
invaded in the fifth century. Fazakerley was named by the Anglo-
Saxons, so it must have been named after that date, but since