English: habitational name from Whitemarsh, a place in the parish
of Sedgehill, Wiltshire, named from Old English hwit ‘white’
(i.e. ‘phosphorescent’) + mersc ‘marsh’. Compare
Whitmore.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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