Wardle Family History
Wardle Name Meaning
habitational name from places in Cheshire and Greater
Manchester (formerly in Lancashire) called Wardle, from Old English
weard ‘watch’ + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Warden 2 and
Wardlaw.regional name from Weardale in County Durham,
which takes its name from the Wear river (named with a Celtic word
probably meaning ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wardle
Name Distribution of Wardle Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wardle families
 666 - 1,330  223 - 665 |
 1 - 222  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wardle families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wardle census records
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Wardle Family Origin
Wardle Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wardle Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Wardle families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Wardle Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wardle census records
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Military Service by Wardle
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