Welcome
I (Tony L Whateley) was baptised in Harborne (St Peter’s) as was my great great grandfather (Clement in 1815. He lived on Harborne Road (Harborne Hill) which is where I now live.
I have set up this site in order to archive/preserve much of the information/data I have accumulated over the last 10 years. It draws together research and information from my own family, Rev S David Whateley from whom I took over the one name study who kindly passed to me his research and others researching their Whateley ancestors who have given their permission for use.
As far as I am aware all is in the public domain but if there is anything you would like removed please contact me.
The One-Name Study
The one name study aims to link all Whateley’s/Whately’s via genealogy and/or DNA. Is your surname Whateley/Whately or do you have family ancestors if so I hope you enjoy the information that is on the site and please do make contact so that the study can grow.
Variant names
The only variant is WHATELY.
It is rumoured that the second ‘E’ was dropped from WHATELEY by a clerk in Banbury in ca 1700.
There are only 44 WHATELY’s in the 2002 ONS List.
The actor Kevin Whately has been linked into the “Whateley’s of Warwickshire” tree (thanks to his WDYTYA program, in which some records used WHATELEY)
Variants such as WHATLEY (2577 in the 2002 ONS) will not be considered as this name originates in the Somerset village of the same name.
DNA website
I am also collating DNA results which have helped to connect descendants of various Whateleys together. Details can be found below
DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/public/whateley
Can you help?
I have been managing this One-Name Study as part of the Guild of One-Name Studies for about 10 years and am now looking for someone to assist/takeover the running of the study.
Any help in structuring/organising this site would be very welcome.
Contact details
Contact us at whateley@one-name.org or me, Tony Whateley directly at t.whateley@sky.com
Personal Information
This website has been compiled from many publicly available sources (including subscription websites) and information submitted by those with Whateley/Whately ancestors. Unless we have a death we would not look to include individuals who were born within the last 100 years. If you find any information that is incorrect or incomplete please contact me.
Copyright and related issues
Images shown on the site either show copyright or are ones we think are free of copyright. If you feel that any image is not correctly recorded please contact me so the site can be altered.
Researchers are free to use our information for non-commercial purposes but we would ask you to quote us as the source.