Index to Wan(d)less (any spelling) civil registrations of Births, Marriages, & Deaths in England

About the PRO (aka GRO aka St. Catherine's) Indexes

Registration District descriptions

Search the PRO index online at Family Research Link (costs £5 to view 55 pages)

Ordering a certificate

The PRO index extracts below are from the personal research of many contributors and from FreeBMD. If you have any extracts to contribute, please email them to .

More about these extracts (field definitions, abbreviations used)

Years we have covered: Births  Marriages  Deaths

Births
1837-1849	1850-1859	1860-1869	1870-1879
1880-1889	1890-1899	1900-1909	1910-1919
1920-1930	Wan(d)less as a Given Name 1837-1900		Army Births 1761-1924

Marriages
1837-1859	1860-1879	1880-1909	1910-1933
Wan(d)less as a Given Name 1837-1900

Deaths
1837-1859	1860-1879	1880-1919	1920-1939
1940-1959	1960-1979	1980-1990	Wan(d)less as a Given Name 1837-1900

Search PRO Index of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland

births (1837-1870)

marriages (1837-1900)

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Search various PRO Indexes online:

County Durham  (not whole county)

Darlington (Durham/Yorkshire border)

Middlesbrough, Yorkshire

Sunderland (marriages only; includes Houghton le Spring & Chester le Street)

Yorkshire BMD

 Scotland: GRO index of Wan(d)l*ss births, marriages, deaths from Scotland's People

UK Census Extracts: Households containing a Wan(d)less name

The information supplied for each person recorded in the census is: place of residence, name, relationship to head of household, marital status, age, occupation, and place of birth (except 1841, which has less info).

1841	Cumberland & Durham
	Northumberland & Yorkshire
	Scotland	complete

1851	England
	Scotland	complete index

1861	Cumberland & Durham
	Northumberland
	England (other)
	Scotland (complete index)

1871	England
	Scotland (complete index)

1881	Durham	This collection contains ALL Wan(d)lesses, any spelling, for the whole of Great Britain.
	Northumberland
	Yorkshire
	Other Counties in England
	Scotland

1891	England
	Scotland (complete index, some full entries)
	Durham index
	Northumberland index
	Other Counties index (currently includes Cumberland, Devon, Derby, London, Worcester, Yorkshire)
	Index of people with Wan(d)less/Wanlace as a given name

1901	England - Index/abstract
	England (actual entries)
	Scotland (complete index, some full entries)
	Get 1901 census entries (fee-based)

Census Dates - what day was each census taken on?

Parish Records of Scotland

Description: Many births, marriages, and deaths of Wanless (all spellings) names extracted from various parish registers of Scotland from the early 1800s through the 1940s. More about this file.
Creator: Christina H. Romeril; transcribed by Alona Perkes & Holly Cochran

Births & Marriages in Scotland of people with Wanless as a middle name & notes on their ancestry
Creator: Sally Hunter

Births, Deaths, Marriages

 Miscellaneous Records

Wanlesses of all spellings extracted from the Publications of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Records Committee (includes apprenticeship records of Newcastle, Northumberland 1644-1781)

Trade directories & voter registers

• England
• Scotland

Durham Record Office catalog - search for Wanless (try all spellings) in the abstracts of their holdings

Miscellaneous extractions from the Durham Record Office Catalog

Newspapers

• The Morpeth Herald, Morpeth, Northumberland
• The Scotsman 1817-1939
• London Gazette 1665-1940 NEW Dec 2007

Military

• 1912 Indian Army Quarterly List
• World War I - National Roll (description of soldiers who survived) NEW Dec 2007
• World War I - Soldiers Who Died In The Great War NEW Dec 2007

Hartburn-area miscellaneous records

People with Wan(d)less as a first or middle name (marriages/births cross-matched to some 1881 census entries)

UK Seamen's Registers - a census substitute listing seamen in the merchant service & commercial vessels

UK Naming Patterns

Signatures of various Wan(d)lesses for comparison

USA

 US Census Extracts: Households with a Wan(d)less name

• 1790 through 1860 Index
• 1870: Complete US index
• 1880: Search FamilySearch.org for any family in the 1880 US census  

  Some extracts from the actual 1880 census

• 1900: All Households containing a Wan(d)less name, any spelling
• 1910: Complete US index

  Pennsylvania (complete Soundex extract)

  Other States (actual census data; incomplete)

• 1920: Complete US Index
  • Index of people with Wanless as a First Name

• Pennsylvania (complete census extract)

• 1930: Index of all Wan(d)less/Wanlace surnames
  • Index of people with Wan(d)less/Wanlace as a First Name
  • Census extracts (incomplete)

Cemetery Records

Wanlesses buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

Search Interment.net

Search FindAGrave.com

Social Security Death Benefit Index at Ancestry.com: View all the entries for
       Wanless  (261 as of 1/1/99)
       Wanlass  (58 as of 1/1/99)
       Wandless (42 as of 1/1/99)
       Wandlass (2 as of 1/1/99)
       Wanles (1 as of 1/1/99)
       Wanlas (1 as of 1/1/99)

Immigration

• Mormon Immigration Index - Wan(d)lesses who immigrated from Great Britain to US on Mormon ships, 1850-1888
• Passengers arriving in New York 1820-1850
• Passengers arriving in New York 1851-1891
• Naturalization indexes for Brooklyn, New York and North Dakota

 State Data

Illinois

• Death index 1916-1947

Colorado

• Wanless burials in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs
• Wanless marriages in Denver, Arapahoe Co, 1859-1901
• Wanless in Arapahoe co deed index 1877-1879

Michigan

• Bay county death index 1883-1920

Minnesota

• Census, Birth, Death, Marriage info on Wanless in St. Louis county, MN circa 1900-1920
• St. Paul city directory 1915-1915
• Search Minnesota Historical Society Death Index -- use "Starts With" and "Wanl" or "Wandl" for most likely results

New York

• Marriage indexes, New York City
• Death indexes, New York City

Ohio

• Wan(d)less names found in Ohio Death Certificate index

Pennsylvania

• Wandless names in the 1890 Pittsburgh city directory
• Marriages in Pittsburgh and Westmoreland county
• Index to Pittsburgh Deaths 1870-1899 and Probates 1788-1971

Utah

• Wanless/Wanlass obituaries in the Salt Lake City newspapers 1881-1958
• Wanless/Wanlass names in Salt Lake City directories 1884-1908

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