Whetstone Family History
Whetstone Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called
Whetstone, in Leicestershire and Greater London (formerly in
Middlesex), or from Wheston in Derbyshire. All are named with Old
English hwetstan ‘whetstone’ and are sited in areas that
provided stone suitable for whetstones, stones used to sharpen knives
and blades.Americanized form of German
Wettstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whetstone
Name Distribution of Whetstone Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whetstone families
 46 - 89  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whetstone families
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33 - 64 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whetstone families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Whetstone Family Origin
Whetstone Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Whetstone
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Whetstone Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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