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Whitwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Whitwell, for example in Dorset, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and North
Yorkshire, named from Old English hwit ‘white’ +
well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitwell
Name Distribution of Whitwell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitwell families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whitwell families
|
100 - 197 34 - 99 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitwell families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whitwell census records
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Whitwell Family Origin
Whitwell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Whitwell
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Whitwell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Whitwell census records
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Whitwell Civil War Service Records
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