Whitley
Janet Mabel Whitley (who married Charles William Noel) and her brother, Raymond Whitley
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Whitley family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Whitley, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records
From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.
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Origin of Surname
The name is derived from any of the places called Whitley in Berkshire, Cheshire, Northumberland, Wiltshire, Warwickshire and Yorkshire, or from Whitleigh in Devon. All are ancient places, deriving their name from "the white wood or glade", from the Olde English "hwit" and "leah". Early examples of the surname include Richard de Witelay (1190, Yorkshire); Hilda de Whitelai (1200, Notinghamshire); and Henry de Hwittele (1221, Warwickshire). The first recorded bearer of the family name is William de Witteleia, in the Chartulary of Staffordshire in 1125.
This family arrived in Jersey in April 1651 when John Charles Whiteley, one of Cromwell's soldiers, joined the Mont Orgueil Castle garrison. He settled in St Martin, where he married a girl from the parish, and remained a soldier until he died in 1674. He may have changed his name to Jean to fit in with common usage in Jersey at the time.
Variants
- Whitelai
- Witelay
- Whitley
- Whiteley
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Whitley baptisms in Jersey
- Whitley marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Whitley marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Whitley burials in Jersey
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- La Cote au Palier, St Martin
- La Haie Fleurie, St Martin
Family album
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Alfred Whitley's master's certificate
Family gravestones
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St John’s Church cemetery -
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The grave of Great War casualty Alexander Fauvel Whitley at Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt -
The grave of Great War casualty George Stanley Whitley at Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, near Valenciennes -
The Whitley family grave at St Martin, which identifies Sergeant Whitley as George Stanley, not Stanley George as shown on the Channel Islands Great War Study Group website -
John Whitley and Sophia Jane Hardie died in Canada but are commemorated on this stone in St Martin's Parish Church in Jersey
Tips
The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.
We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling
The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.
New records
Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form
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