Wheatley Family History
- Wheatley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places named Wheatley, for example in Essex, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and West Yorkshire, from Old English hw?te ‘wheat’ + leah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 904,853 Historical Documents with Wheatley on Ancestry
- 303,114 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 209,957 Census and Voter Lists
- 22,255 Military Records
- 17,614 Immigration Records
- 351,913 Member Trees
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Number of Wheatley families
 557 - 1,111  186 - 556 |
 1 - 185  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wheatley families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wheatley census records
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- England (174)
- Ireland (54)
- Great Britain (6)
- Scotland (3)
- London;England (2)
- Scotland;Great Britain (2)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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