Medieval English families on the internet: W

Waad/Wade

• Wade Families [formerly at http://www.k-wade.freeserve.co.uk/index2.htm; not available, 26 April 2002; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2001] (Richard Wade)
  Some notes, 13th century and later; see also a page devoted to the family of Sir William Wade (1546 - 1623) [formerly at http://www.k-wade.freeserve.co.uk/srwmwaad.htm; not available, 26 April 2002; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2001]

Wakely

• Introductory notes on Wakely history (J. R. Wakely/Steve Wakely) [not available, 10 December 2019; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from March 2016]
  Detailed account with background material and pedigrees, covering Hertfordshire, Dorset, London and Devon (14th-17th centuries).

Waller

• Jocelyn/Waller Ancestry (Andrew Jocelyn Waller and Hardress Jocelyn Waller)
  Includes an account of the family of Warren alias Waller, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, 16th century

Walsh/Waleys

• Walsh of England (Dennis Walsh) [not available, 29 November 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Notes on occurrences of the Walsh surname, and variants, in more than a dozen English counties, with details of heraldry, from the 13th century and later; Material from Ireland and elsewhere is given on other pages of the same website

Warburton

• Warburton of Warburton and Arley (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hcwarbur.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned chart pedigree from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)

Warenne

• Notes on the family of Gerbod, Earl of Chester, and of Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (this site)
  Transcripts of documents and discussion
• A Brief Outline of the lives of Gundrad, and William Earl de Warenne..., by the Rev. John Scobell (1845) and Observations on the Parentage of Gundreda The Daughter of William Duke of Normandy And Wife of William de Warenne, by Sir George Duckett, (reprinted with additions from the Cumberland and Westmorland Society's Translations, vol.3, 1878) (Tom Burch and Ronnie Warren, Old Books on CD) [formerly at http://www.oldbooksoncd.com/gundrad_book.htm and http://www.oldbooksoncd.com/gundreda_book.htm; not available, 14 May 2006; see the Internet Archive's copies of Scobell and Duckett, from February 2005]
  Two 19th-century texts discussing Gundred's ancestry and epitaph; note that the old belief that Gundred was William the Conqueror's daughter has since been shown conclusively to be false
• Castle Acre Castle and Priory (Michael W. Cook) [not available, 19 June 2022; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from June 2016]
  Includes some details of the Warenne earls of Surrey, from the 11th to the 14th centuries; some statements are based on traditional material since superseded (see Todd Farmerie's article)
• Robert de Torigny and the family of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy (Todd A. Farmerie)
  Includes discussion of the traditional descent of the Warennes from a niece of Gunnor
• Warren Line (Earls of Warren and Surrey) (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-14th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution. In particular, it is now accepted that Gundred, the wife of William de Warenne, was not a daughter of either William I or his wife Matilda
• William Warenne (Pat Patterson)
  Biography of William Warenne, first Earl of Surrey (d.1088), from the Dictionary of National Biography
• William de Warren (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber; in particular, it is now accepted that the charter evidence about Gundred's parentage is spurious

Warr: see La Warr

Warwick

• The Countess of Warwick, Warwick Castle and its earls from Saxon times to the present day. Volume 1. (1903) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 ;  5 .]
• The Countess of Warwick, Warwick Castle and its earls from Saxon times to the present day. Volume 2. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]

Waterhouse

• Waterhouse Families (Pat Patterson)
  Narrative pedigree, 14th-17th centuries, Lincolnshire/Yorkshire
• Two old Sowerby Bridge houses: Broadgates, alias Underbank and Waterhouse Wills (Pat Patterson)
  Article from Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, volume 9 (1910) and extracts from wills relating to the Waterhouse family of Halifax, 15th and 16th centuries

Westcott

• The Ancient Westcott Family in England (Bill Wescott) [formerly at http://www.greymoorco.com/Genealogy/westcott.htm; not available, 16 May 2006; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from March 2005]
  Includes notes on occurrences of the surname and its variants, 12th-16th centuries. The alleged Saxon descent should be taken with a pinch of salt

Whitney

• Medieval Whitney Families (Whitney Research Group) [not available, 25 September 2024; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2021]
  This site also includes material extracted from primary and secondary sources.
• Descendants of Thomas Whitney (Carol Clute) [formerly at http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/l/u/Carol-M-Clute/FILE/0001page.html; not available, 8 September 2006; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from March 2005]
  London area, 16th century and later, including a transcript of 17th-century administrators' accounts

Williscroft

• Williscroft Woolliscroft Wolliscroft Worldwide Onename Study (Jill Dixon)
  Includes notes of medieval occurrences of the surname in Staffordshire.

Willoughby

• J. Horace Round, The Willoughby d'Eresby case and the rise of the Berties, in Peerage and Pedigree: Studies in Peerage Law and Family History (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)

Wilson

• Wilson [formerly at http://www.nvsn.com/lrichard/batt2.htm#Wilson; not available, 27/07/2001; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from July 2001] (Lonnie Richardson)
  Narrative pedigree, 16th-17th centuries, Cumberland, Lincolnshire etc

Winchcombe

• Descendants of Jack of Newbury (c.1465-1519/20) [not available, 19 July 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2004]
  Notes on the Winchcombe family of Newbury, Berkshire, and elsewhere, 15th century and later

Wingfield

• Wingfield of Wingfield and Letheringham (Letheringham Lodge)
  Detailed narrative pedigree of the Wingfield family of Suffolk, 13th to 16th centuries.

Winnington

• Winnington of Winnington (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hcwining.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned chart pedigree from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)

Winter

• The Golden Falcon (Wendy Florence Winter Garcia/Anne Winter Williams)
  Large collection of material relating to the family of Sir William Winter, Surveyor of the Navy to Elizabeth I, 12th century and later
• Thomas Wynter (Soskernow: Friends of Cornwall)
  Biographical notes on a 16th-century cleric, giving evidence suggesting that he was an illegitimate son of Cardinal Wolsey.

Wirdnam

• The Wirdnams: an upwardly mobile family of the 16th century: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Conclusion (Lis Garnish, The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage)
  PDF format. Detailed article in four parts, on the Wirdnams of Wantage, Oxfordshire, originally published in The Blowing Stone (1990)

Woodford/Woodforde

• The Woodforde Family (Stephen Butt) [not available, 20 June 2019; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2019]
  Detailed notes on the Woodford(e) families of Leicestershire, 14th century and later, and Northamptonshire, 16th century and later

Worth

• The Washfield Saga: Land Tenure and Family History in Devon, 1275-1800 (Harvard Law School Library)
  Abstracts of a sequence of charters associated with the manor of Washfield, providing evidence about the Worths and other families. Nat Taylor has made available an accompanying chart pedigree [see the Internet Archive's copy of this page from June 2003]

Wright

• The Descendants of John Wright (Daniel L. Wright and David Herber)
  Notes on John Wright (d.c.1540) of Holderness and his descendants.

Wrottesley

• George Wrottesley, History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford. (1903) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)

Wyatt

• The Wyatt Family History (John Hampton Wyatt/Julian & Alice Wyatt) [not available, 25 November 2009]
  Notes from miscellaneous sources about medieval Wyatts
• Wyatt Haven [formerly at http://www.worldramp.net/~wyatt/; not available, 30 April 2003; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from May 2002] (Don Wyatt/Phyllis Griffith)
  The section Meet some of my ancestors & relatives includes biographies of the Wyatts of Kent, 15th century and later [formerly at http://www.worldramp.net/~wyatt/HTM/Relative.htm; not available, 30 April 2003; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from May 2002]

Wykes

• World Wykes Web (Harry J.F. Wykes)
  Notes on medieval occurrences of the surname in various counties; the text of The ancient family of Wyke of North Wyke, co Devon by the Rev.W. Wykes-Finch (1903); another account from Charles Worthy's Devonshire Wills (1896) and further details with a History of North Wyke

Wyles

• The Wyles Family of Duddington [Northamptonshire] (Adrian Peter Chan-Wyles)
  Includes a discussion of the family's medieval origins.

Wyncoll

• The Wyncolls of Suffolk and Essex (Charles Brewster)
  Online version of the book by Colonel C. E. Wyncoll [1912], adapted from an account by L. C. Sier in the Essex Archaeological Society's Transactions (1910); mainly 16th century and later