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Wanless (any spelling) births in England from PRO index

This is NOT a complete listing of all Wan(d)less entries in the PRO index. See the table of years/quarters covered for Births, Marriages. and Deaths.
If anybody has any further data to contribute to this table, please send it to . If you know where and when your Wanless
person was born and he/she doesn't appear in the index, there are some Wanley births in FreeBMD that might
actually be Wanless; to find out, the actual index and probably even the certificates would have to be checked.

Civil Registration in England and Wales did not begin until July 1837 and any before this date have to be questioned.
Each year is divided into quarters (3 months) and the month given is the last month of that quarter
e.g. September = 3rd quarter ( July, August and September). Information about ordering certificates can be found here.

If volume/page numbers are missing for the entry you want in the table below, check FreeBMD to see if they have the same entry listed, as their entry will include volume/page. If you provide a complete GRO reference, including quarter, year, district, volume, and page, to the GRO, you will pay less for your certificate.

Birth Comments

If there are parents listed in the Comments field, it means somebody has seen the actual certificate, and the parents are listed in the format:

Father's first name/Mother's Full Maiden Name
Example: Thomas/Elizabeth Cowell

I have omitted the father's surname to save space; you can assume the father's name is Wan(d)less unless otherwise noted.
Some parents are prefixed with "probably" - this means we haven't seen the certificate, but are guessing based on other data such as a unique name, location, or
other sources such as parish registers. (per PR) means "per the parish register".

Marriage Comments

There is an ongoing project to insert the spouse's name if the cert has been obtained, to prevent others from ordering the wrong certs. Please send Holly any spouse's names from any marriages you recognize here.

In the comments/spouse's name field, "per PR" means we haven't seen the actual civil certficate but the marriage is recorded in a parish register with matching date, names, and places - so it's a pretty good bet that the spouse is correct, but to be absolutely sure, you should still obtain the civil certificate. Similarly, "per VRI" means this marriage is in the British Isles Vital Records Index (produced by the LDS Church), which is extracted from parish registers.

DarBMD site = Darlington BMD website

DCC site = Durham County Council PRO index site

Death Comments

Information in the Comments column enclosed in parentheses means the information was obtained from other sources but has a solid body of supporting evidence such as parish register entries, tombstones, probate records, etc.