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The surname "Lee" is Anglo Saxon and it would therefore be reasonable to assume that our paternal ancestral origins lie in the North German plains which we now call Schleswig-Holstein which lies just north of modern Hamburg, rather than the Celtic inhabitants of old Britain. The obvious needs of the invaders to find suitable sites for settlements was somewhat hampered by the dense forests of old "Angleland", and the location of these settlements was often determined by the ease at which clearings could be created. These clearings or glades where they built some of their villages were known by various terms, amongst which was the word "Leah", surviving not only as the modern surname Lee, Lea, Leigh, Ley, Lay, Lye, but also as the terminal in numerous place names.