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Codes used in this document:
a = apprentice to (between 2 names)
s = son of (between 2 names)
f.s. = freeman's son (before a name)
m = musket (before a name; I don't know what this refers to)
p = pike (before a name; I don't know what this refers to)
r = respited, stopped (after a name)

Occupations (after a name):
barber = barber, surgeon, wax & tallow chandler
glazier = glazier & painter
skinner = skinner & glover
waller = waller, bricklayer, and plaisterer

Xpofer = an old spelling of the name Christopher

Volume III: The Register of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne from the Corporation Guild
and Admission Books Chiefly of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Madelaine Hope Dodds (pub. 1923)

#2970	Nov. 14, 1644	m. Chrir Wanles			glazier
#1565	Guild, 22 April 1650	John Wannles	a	George Milbourne	skinner
#1565	Guild, 22 April 1650	Moses Crissum	a	Xpofer Wanlesse	glazier
#3785	Guild, 11 Oct.1652	John Wanles			skinner
#3945	1657 (prob. 1658)	John Wanles			waller
#4080	1660	Cuthbert Wanless			glazier
#5770	1681	John Wandles			waller
#6215	1684	Jno Wanles			smith
#8450	2 Oct.1708	f.s. John	s	John Wanlas	waller
#8365	27 Oct. 1710	Wm. Wanlas	a	Hen Potts	cooper

Volume VI: The Register of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne from the Corporation Guild
and Admission Books Chiefly of the Eighteenth Century, edited by A.M. Oliver (pub. 1926)

	Thos. Wanlass	a	Robt. Robson	smith (r)	note 1
___ Mar. 16	Matt. Wanlass.	waller			note 2
1722 Mar. 30	Matthew Wanles	s	John	waller
	Tho. Wanlas	a	smith		note 2
1772 Nov. 2	John Wanlass	s	Thomas	smith
1764 Guild, 8 Oct.	John Wanlass	smith
1768 Guild, 11 April	Thomas Wandliss	a	Thomas Grey	waller	Jan.17, 1769
1768 Guild, 10 Oct.	John Wanless	a	James Newton	barber	Oct.14, 1774
1772 Guild, 27 April	Thomas Wandless	a	Ralph Smith	slater (r)
24 April 1775	William Wandless	a	George Scaif	slater (r)
1781 Guild, 23 April	Joseph Galloway	a	Thomas Wandless	waller	Jan. 14, 1781

note 1: year not shown, but surrounding records are for 1720
note 2: year not shown in my copy; can probably be found in original

Volume VIII Index of Wills, etc., in the Probate Registry, Durham and from other sources 1540-1599, edited by H.M. Wood (1928).
#1584 Wanlys, John p Lumley; 1583/4 Feb. 15, John Wanlis bur. [Chester-le-Street Regs.]

Volume IX A Volume of Miscellanea: The Register of the Ballast Hills cemetery
Ann Wandles, infant

Copied from the above sources in the LDS library in Salt Lake City by Gloria Heitsman; Wanlesses extracted and typed by Gladys Wanless; formatted by Holly Cochran.