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Jelley One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Jelley   

Category:  1 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is in its early stages.

Contact: Mrs Sheila Jelley


About the study

The Jelley One Name Study was started in 2000 after the death of my father Ronald James Jelley (1909-1999). He travelled to London from Buckinghamshire every week to write down all the Birth, Marriage & Death references from the GRO up to 1983 and I felt it would be a shame to not put the information to good use.
 
2026 - This project is now open to anyone that is willing to take it on.

Variant names

Jelly

Name origin

A Diminutive of Julian. For my study there are three pockets of the name all going back to the 1500's. Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland.

Surrey & Sussex.

Somerset.

Distribution of the name

There are three main areas of the Jelley/Jelly surname.

Surrey/Sussex

Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland

Somerset to South Wales

 

Data

Births Marriages & Deaths from GRO Index Total 17,000.

Parish Register material for all Counties amlunts to a vast amount of information.

Many Family Trees all hoping to tie up at some stage.

Many contacts on these various trees in UK, Australia & New Zealand.

USA is another story yet to unfold

DNA

 

Links

 

Contact Details

Mrs Sheila Jelley

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Jelley in the Guild Indexes
(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)
  • Global Marriages (public)  937
  • Global Marriages (members)* 951
  • Inscriptions Index  3
  • Modern Newspaper Index  5
  • Probate Index* 4
  • Datastores  3

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