Weatherall Name Study

Date: 15 Dec 2023 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surname/tag: Weatherall

About the Project

The Weatherall Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Weatherall name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Weatherall name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Weatherall's), by time period (18th Century Weatherall's), or by topic (Weatherall DNA, Weatherall Occupations, Weatherall Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Weatherall Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. (There aren’t any pages yet- let me know what you are interested in and we’ll get it started!) If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Elaine (Weatherall) Martzen for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Name Basics

• Name origin and meaning:

English (Durham and Yorkshire): habitational name from Wetheral (Cumberland). The placename derives from Old English wether ‘wether, castrated ram’ + halh ‘nook, corner of land’.^[1]

• The relative frequency or distribution of the surname
• Patterns in migration- England to Ireland; England to USA; England to Australia

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study.

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Wetherell
• Wetherill
• Witherell
• Weatherald
• Wederal - this is old English, may not be in use today -Weatherall-96 17:53, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Books and Webpages

• http://wetherillfamily.com/wetherill_history.html and archived link - https://web.archive.org/web/20230923212337/http://wetherillfamily.com/wetherill_history.html

Town of Wetheral

• "The place-name 'Wetheral' is first attested in the Register of Wetheral Priory circa 1100 AD, where it appears as Wetherhala. The name means 'the haugh (area of flat land by a river) where wethers (castrated male sheep) were kept'.

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• Wetheral Benedictine Priory^[3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ FamilySearch entry citing Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
2. ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetheral citing Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.510.
3. ↑ 'Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Wetheral', in A History of the County of Cumberland: Volume 2, ed. J Wilson (London, 1905), pp. 184-189. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cumb/vol2/pp184-189 [accessed 17 December 2023].
4. ↑ The register of the Priory of Wetherhal . E. Stock, T. Wilson, London, Kendal, 1897 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044081231284&seq=39

See also:

• https://www.finchhistory.org/wetherall/