Whitman Family History
Whitman Name Meaning
English: from Middle English whit ‘white’ + man
‘man’, either a nickname with the same sense as White, or else
an occupational name for a servant of a bearer of the nickname
White.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitman
Name Distribution of Whitman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitman families
 223 - 444  75 - 222 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whitman families
|
94 - 186 32 - 93 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitman families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whitman census records
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Whitman Family Origin
Whitman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Whitman
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Whitman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Whitman census records
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Whitman Civil War Service Records
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