This database of over 770 people has several entry points because it contains intermarriages between at least 2 lines of Wandlass/Wanlace/Wanless families, plus a few families whose relationship to the whole isn't yet known. It starts in the mid to late 1600s in & around Rothbury & Hartburn, Northumberland, England. Other areas with later heavy representation are Tone & Chollerton in NBL, and Monkwearmouth & Southwick in Co. Durham.

• One branch immigrated to the USA, with the family of John Wandlass (b. 1847) settling in Girardville, Schuylkill co, Pennsylvania about 1864 and his sister Eleanor settling in Utah and then Montana.
• One branch emigrated to Australia in the 1850s or thereabout.
• Gill Winstanley's research deals primarily with the descendants of Stephen Wanless & Jane Bolam (md. 1828, Birtley, NBL, England). Primary Northumberland locations of this family line include Rothbury, Hartburn, Kirkharle, Birtley, Great Bavington, and Heddon-on-the-Wall.

Some of the early relationships are speculative and are marked as such and contain notes about the theory and logic -- we welcome any proof OR refutation of our theories!

Parish notes: Netherwitton was a chapelry annexed to Hartburn parish. Ritton was in Netherwitton, so is referred to in some places as being part of Hartburn. Hawick was in Kirkharle parish until 1847 when it was transferred to Kirkwhelpington.

Researchers: Kay Stevens, Tony Palmer, Claire Wandless, Bruce Rowe, Gill Winstanley, Tom & Peter Wanless

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Please do not submit data gathered by others to other projects such as World Family Tree, Ancestral File, Ancestry World Tree, etc. without first obtaining the permission of the owner, who has worked hard to gather & present the information and may not want to share it in that manner. These projects tend to omit source information and remove important caveats about the reliability of certain key pieces of data, leading casual readers to believe that a line has been proven when it is in fact a tentative work in progress.

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Privacy Notice: With any large family, it is difficult to contact all the living descendants who might object to the inclusion of their name on this page. This database has been cleaned of dates for living people, but names are still present. Most name & date information is public record and if somebody really wanted to, they could dig up this information. That having been said, if you appear in this database and you want your name removed, just and you and your descendants will be removed shortly.

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