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The whitley Surname

whitley Name Meaning and History

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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The whitley name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the whitley family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of whitley Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitley families
 287-571
 96-286		 1-95
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 414 - Messages: 974
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WHITLEY infant 1883 1883 son of D R and K J Whitley t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
WHITLEY Kate J 1849 1888 wife of D R Whitley t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
WHITLEY Mollie 1852 1887 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
"Our Wandering Whitleys" seanskitravel 2
Whitley Family Nancy Brett Richards 11
George F. Whitley (1796) look for parents LWhitley2512 4
Frank Whitley of Southampton Co Va oclarke11 0
Maudie Whitley/ Henry Perry RebeccaSisk60 0
James Whitley gw9232 2
Michael and Martha (sikes) Whitley dwhi1008071 1
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