Whelpley Family History
- Whelpley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Whelpley Hill in Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire or from places called Whelpley in Hailsham, Sussex, and Whiteparish, Wiltshire, all named with Old English hwelp ‘whelp’, ‘cub’, ‘young animal’ + leah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 44,733 Historical Documents with Whelpley on Ancestry
- 9,850 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,322 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,608 Military Records
- 1,198 Immigration Records
- 25,755 Member Trees
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Number of Whelpley families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whelpley families
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69 - 136 24 - 68 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Whelpley census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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