The name Whatley is English and the Coat of Arms contains Red with a silver lion and on a gold stripe at the top three black stars.
Spelling variations include: Whatley, Whatly, Whately, Wheatley, Whetly, Whettell and many more.
First found in Somersetshire anciently seated in the village and manor of Whatley near Frome, where they are conjecturally believed to be descended from the possessor of those lands, at the taking of the Domesday Survey in 1086, John the Usher, from Glastonbury Abbey.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Richard Whately, who settled in the Barbados in 1670; David Whatley settled in Pennsylvania in 1772; J. D. Whatley settled in San Francisco, Cal. in 1850.
