Wesley Family History
- Wesley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places named with the Old English elements west ‘west’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, as for example Westley in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, and Westleigh in Devon and Greater Manchester.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 509,831 Historical Documents with Wesley on Ancestry
- 163,361 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 108,518 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,610 Military Records
- 7,891 Immigration Records
- 211,451 Member Trees
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Number of Wesley families
 79 - 155  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wesley families
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43 - 84 15 - 42 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wesley census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Wesley census records
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