Whitley Family History
Whitley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named with
Old English hwit ‘white’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitley
Name Distribution of Whitley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitley families
 484 - 965  162 - 483 |
 1 - 161  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitley families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whitley census records
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Whitley Family Origin
Whitley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Whitley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Whitley
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