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Origin of white Total Records: 11  Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: Is there any link to Whitehead's from Germany? Surnames: Whitehead Submitted by: John Whitehead Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: ORIGIN OF THIS FAMILY NAME AS WELL AS ANY INFORMATION ON JOHN ANDREW WHITE SR. AND HIS FATHER ERVIN WHITE. WHO WAS ERVIN WHITE'S WIFE AND PARENTS...GRANDPARENTS ECT...JOHN WHITE SR. WAS MARRIED TO ELIZA ELLEN DRENNEN OF FAYETTE COUNTY WV. Surnames: White Submitted by: KIM DICKERSON Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: Searching for any information on Althea May White, mother of Glenn Garland Palmer Surnames: White Submitted by: Michelle Woodyard Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: West Virginia Surnames: WHITEHAIR Submitted by: Jim Simon Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: Satterwhite is of English origin, apparently deriving from the village of Satterthwaite in Lancashire. Research in England reveals that the first recorded Satterthwaite name is found after the Norse invasions of the ninth century. Surnames: Satterwhite, Saterwhite, Saturwhite, Satterthwaite Submitted by: Jim Satterwhite Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: Van Harchel White DOB: Oct. 31, 1884 New Kensington, PA DOD: Sept. 15, 1958 Shreveport, LA Married: Margaret Anastasia Henretty who died in child birth on in May, 1926 leaving 6 children; one a new born. They were named, Van Jr, William, James, Virginia, Margaret and Julia Ann. My grandmother is buried at Machpelah Cemetary in Weston, WV. Additional info on the Whites of PA, OH and WV would be appreciated. Thanks. Surnames: White Submitted by: Sandra White Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: Dweller on the white side of a tree or valley Surnames: white Submitted by: Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: The White name is general is one of the most common surnames in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In England its most common origin is as a descriptive nickname for someone who was fair-haired or pale, and a sizeable proportion of those bearing the name in Ireland will be of English extraction; such families were prominent in Clare, Waterford and Kilkenny. In some cases, as families were absorbed by Gaelic culture, White was phonetically hibernicized Mac Faoite. After the final collapse of the Gaelic order in the seventeenth century this was re-anglicised as MacWhitty and MacQuitty, as well as the original White. In the north of Ireland, many Whites are of Scottish extraction. The surname was a semi-translation of the Highland Gaelic Mac Gille Bhain, ?son of the fair-haired servant or youth?, and was also adopted by many of the MacGregors and Lamonts when they were outlawed and their own names proscribed. Elsewhere in Ireland White was sometimes used locally for many Irish originals containing, or thought to contain the elements ban (?white?) or fionn (?fair?). A significant portion but not all of the White's can trace there history back to the Fitzgerald's and the royal linage of Nesta Rhy. (early settlers in MA, VT) Fitzgerald is a Norman name, made up of Fi(t)z, Norman French for ?son of?, and Gerald, a personal name of Germanic origin from geri, ?spear? and wald, ?rule?. Also (Mac Gearailt) called collectively the "Geraldines." The family trace their origin to Walter FitzOther, keeper of Windsor forest in the late eleventh century, whose son Gerald was constable of Pembroke Castle in Wales. His wife was Nest, daughter of Rhys Ap Tewdwyr, King of South Wales. Gerald flourished in the early part of the twelfth century. His son, Maurice Fitzgerald, ancestor of the Irish FitzGeralds, was one of the allies of Strongbow, the leader and organizer of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. Maurice received grants of land in several parts of Ireland, and his descendants were, among the most powerful of Norman families in Ireland, and members of this family often filled high offices in Ireland under the English Crown. Over the following eight centuries the family became one of the most powerful and numerous in Ireland. The head of the main branch, the Duke of Leinster, known historically as the Earl of Kildare, is the foremost peer of Ireland. The Leinster branch of the family held for many centuries the Earldom of Kilare. A branch of the Fitzgeralds, the Barrons (Barun) of Burnchurch, County Kilkenny, assumed the surname of Barron from their title in those parts, and remain a highly respectable family in that area and Waterford. The MacMorises (Mac Muiris) or Fitzmaurices were a branch of the Geraldines who became lords of Lixnaw in County Kerry, and became famous for their resistance to the English invaders of the sixteenth century. The Munster branch held the Earldom of Desmond, and in 1333 the then Earl Palatine of Desmond created three hereditary knights, which still survive: the White Knight (now Fitzgibbon and White), the Knight of Kerry, the Knight of Glin. The White Knight was the head of the MacGibbons (Mac Giobuin) or Fitzgibbons line. Descend from Gilbert de Clare, who about 1300 possessed the manor or Mahoonagh and other valuable estates in southeastern County Limerick. This branch of the family settled in County Cork, where they were chiefs of a territory known as Clangibbon. Two other Knights were sons of a John Fitzgerald. The two lineal male descendants and heirs of these two brothers are still known respectively as the Knight of Glin and the Knight of Kerry. The power of the Munster branch, the Earls of Desmond, was severely disrupted in the wars of the sixteenth century. The surname is now common, but remains concentrated in the ancient homeland of the Earls of Desmond, counties Cork, Limerick and Kerry. According to research, the Fitzgerald's white Coat of Arms contains ?An ermine shield with a red saltire, and three red annulets on a silver chief.? The Crest is ?A red boar charged with three silver annulets.? Can be seen at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~enchantedworld/index.htm Surnames: White Submitted by: Linda Sibley Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: The Encyclopedia of American Family Names, by H. Amanda Rbb and Andrew Chesler (1995: Harper Collins) lists, on page 683, the following information: Whitehead: Origin: English, Irish, Scottish. For the English and Scottish versions, it's derived from the Middle English "whit" and "heved," meaning, respectively (and not too surprisingly) white and head. It was a name given to those with light-colored or white hair. In Ireland, it's a mistaken translation of Canavan, a name predominantly found in Connemara and other parts of County Galway. Surnames: Whitehead Submitted by: Daniel J. Kane Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: According to my research the surname SAVAGE means "someone of fierce countenance." Surnames: Savage, White, Borden. Hartnett, Lauriston Submitted by: Bill Savage Origin of white, Meaning of white Origin: The Satterwhite name is derived from Satterthwaite and other similar names. The origins of the name as listed in the Dictionary of Names comes from England and means"near the Glen". The family migrated to England around 900 AD from Denmark. Surnames: Satterwhite, Saterwhite, Saturwhite, Satterthwaite Submitted by: 11/21/2009 9:05 PM Page 1 of 1

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