How to pronounce Mullies?

Two syllables: Mu-less, first syllable stressed
as Moo. Moo-less.

NOT: Moo-lees. Alternate: Mullis.

William Mullies

French: Meulles, Norman French eleventh century

Mullis, Mulles, Mulliss, Moulis, Moules

Norman French: mill stones

Introduced to England in 1066 at Hastings; baron
Baldoin de Meulles, cousin of Edward the Confessor
and William the Conqueror, from Normandy. Major
land holder in Devonshire, baron of Okehampton and
High Sheriff of Devon 1067 through death c. 1090.
Heirs Wm. de Molis, Richard de Molis, Adeliza de
Molis, end of lineage ca. 1150.

Subtenant Roger de Meulles/Molis Domesday Survey
under Sheriff Baldwin; heirs through late 14th
century Devon and East Cornwall.

Fourteen variants including Meoles, Moels, Molis,
Moles, Mulys, Mules, Molys, Molles, Mollys, Mulles, Mullys, Mullis, Mullyes, Mullies, the latter five from the 1550s in Michaelstow Parish, Cornwall County.