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whitmore Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of various places named Whitmore, for example in Staffordshire, from Old English hwit ‘white’ + mor ‘moor’.
  2. Some bearers of the name are descended from John of Whytenmere, Shropshire, who lived in the 13th century. This form is probably a variant of Whittimere, a place on the Staffordshire–Shropshire border, named in Old English most probably as ‘pool associated with someone called Hwita’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of whitmore Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitmore families
 123-244
 42-122		 1-41
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Threads: 409 - Messages: 945
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Thomas Whitmore elizabethmasters114 1
Whitmore with Scottish roots mhodge38 0
Whitmore family, Marcellus, NY, Boonsville, NY 1ancestorhunter 0
Susanna Whitmore GBURTON 5
Ella Whitmore tiggygds 0
WHITMORE'S IN NEW ZEALAND kimmark92 7
2 Whitmore women: Mary C. b. 1846 in PA and Sally b 1773 in CT wildfl0wer 0
Arthur Whitmore of Caroline Co Va oclarke11 0
Whitmore, Mary F. (OBIT PA 12-1-2007) obituary33b 0
WHITMORE in Oklahoma MJ_Leahy 2
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