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Meet One of Our FamiliesTree #22: James Wanless Dundee, Scotland & Varna, Ontario, Canada206 people James Wanless (1750/60-1822) married first Jean Dow and then Agnes Sime. He was a linen and/or woollen manufacturer in Dundee, Angus, Scotland. His son James Wanless (1811-1889), born in Dundee, had 2 children in Scotland by his first wife Margaret Baxter and 7 children in Scotland and Canada by his 2nd wife Margaret Halket. James & his mother Agnes & his 2nd wife Margaret immigrated with their older children to Canada in 1842 and lived around Varna, Ontario. Some of their descendants ended up in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Welcome to Wanless Web!
This genealogy site hosts the family histories of all forms of the Wanless name. If you are a Wanless, Wandless, Wanlass, Wanliss, Wandlass, or Wanlace, you will probably find your family represented here. If not, we want to know about you! Step in, relax, explore the site, and learn about the fascinating people who bear this surname in all its forms.
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Site upgraded (questionably!)
We had to make a semi-emergency move to a new server last week and I finally got around to upgrading the TNG software that runs the trees on this site. I was shocked to discover […] GRO Birth Index 1837-1911 updated with mother’s maiden surnamesUpdated the GRO Birth Index for 1837 to mid-1911 with mother’s maiden surnames, which are now supplied on the main GRO site. Thomas Wanless & Ann Marshall moved to tree 52Moved the 45-person tree of Thomas Wanless & Ann Marshall from the catch-all database (tree 100) into tree 52 (John Wanless and Ann Harpley/Hartley). We’re 90% sure Thomas is a son of John and added […] |