From Catley in Herefordshire or Catley in Lincolnshire or Catlees, a tenement in Froyle, Hampshire . Please send in any other references to the Catley surname or place name that you come across. There was a Gilbertine priory of St. Mary, Catley , Lincolnshire, which was founded between 1148 and 1154 by Peter of Billinghay . Everything is most fluid as far as I am concerned re formation of our name and the obvious thing is the phonetic interpretation by Monks, Scribes and Clergy at the time.
Some families show a cat rampant with front paws on the wooden cross member of a vertical anchor .