Whitby Family History
Whitby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the port in North Yorkshire named
Whitby, from Old Norse hvítr ‘white’ or the personal name
Hvíti + býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, or from a
place of the same name in Cheshire, originally named with Old English
hwit ‘white’ (i.e. stone-built) + burh ‘manor house’,
‘fortified place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Whitby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitby families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whitby families
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112 - 221 38 - 111 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitby families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Whitby Family Origin
Whitby Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Whitby
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Whitby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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