The Dadley Family History

This is a site where you can find information about the history of the Dadley family.

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The Dadley Family in the Census

Census Freqency of the Surname Dadley
1841 Census 231
1851 Census 202
1861 Census 260
1871 Census 307
1891 Census 432

Most Frequent Forenames for the Dadley Family in the Census

Name 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1891 Census Total
WILLIAM Dadley 17 13 12 14 26
JOHN Dadley 24 10 18 14 15
MARY Dadley 29 10 9 6 8
ELIZABETH Dadley 14 10 12 4 13
THOMAS Dadley 14 11 6 11 11
SARAH Dadley 14 10 8 10 6
HENRY Dadley 6 10 7 6 12
JAMES Dadley 6 8 11 4 11
ANN Dadley 10 8 9 7 1
JOSEPH Dadley 8 5 5 6 10
JANE Dadley 7 3 8 8 5
EMMA Dadley 3 8 5 8 5
GEORGE Dadley 2 4 5 10 7
MARY ANN Dadley 1 2 7 7 9
ALFRED Dadley 1 5 2 3 9
ELIZA Dadley 5 4 4 3 4
BENJAMIN Dadley 3 2 4 4 6
ALICE Dadley 1 2 1 6 6
ELLEN Dadley 1 1 2 4 7
SAMUEL Dadley 5 4 3 1 1

Etmology and History of the Surname: Dadley

Search for the etymology and history of the surname Dadley (information provided by www.BehindTheName.com).

Your Family History Search

You can use the forms below to do automatic searches for the Dadley family online amongst birth, marriage and death records from 1837, plus census transcripts for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901


 


Closure at the FRC
The Family Records Centre closes on the 31st October, and plans to move the entire record collection to The National Archives, Kew.

 

Anatomy of the Census Page
Not every piece of information is obvious to the casual observer, so to make sure that you extract every useful piece of information from the census page.

 

Women allowed to enter the Medical Profession from 1876
In the 19th Century, a career as a physician was a highly respected following for a man. Yet it was considered outrageous for any woman to pursue a career in that profession.

 

The Bronte Sisters in the Yorkshire 1841 Census
The three Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - grew up with their brother Branwell in Parsonage House in Haworth, Yorkshire. They can be found in the 1841 Census.