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Whellans

All three of these groups hail from Northumberland.

The surname spelling is not only different from those on the other side of the Border but also varies considerably.

1     In the 'D group', William (b1811 Rothbury Northumberland) & Jane Wheallens lived in Alnwick at 1851 with their seven children.  
       He married Jane McGregor during 1836 in Doddington.  
       His parents are unproven but are hypothesised to be Cuthbert Whillins/Whillens who married Ann Scott.  
       Some of the group had a definite work connection with the Duke of Northumberland.  
       This group has 90 named descendants, one of whom has an almost identical Y-DNA to the author,
       a descendant of James Whillans b1688.  Our Y-haplogroup is R-FT85125.

2     The 'E group' originated with Matthew Whillens who married Jane Hogg in 1782 at Elsdon Northumberland. 
       They had at least seven children.  
       This group has 215 named descendants with a wide variety of surname spellings.
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3     The 'EM group' originally lived at Great Bavington and South Shields. 
       The progenitor is hypothesised to be Robert Whillans/Whillins/Whillons/Whealance
       who fathered at least seven children all c1781-1794 Presbyterian at Great Bavington.  
​       One of these Mihil/Michael Whillance c1792 has given us most of the 260 named descendants.




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