Wheeley Family History
- Wheeley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name for someone from Weoley Castle in West Midlands (formerly in Worcestershire), named with Old English weoh ‘(pre-Christian) temple’ + leah ‘(woodland) clearing’, or from Weeley in Essex, which is named with Old English wilig ‘willow’ + leah.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,281 Historical Documents with Wheeley on Ancestry
- 6,990 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,783 Census and Voter Lists
- 624 Military Records
- 369 Immigration Records
- 6,515 Member Trees
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Number of Wheeley families
 26 - 49  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wheeley census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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