Whitworth Family History
Whitworth Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places named
Whitworth, from the Old English byname Hwita meaning ‘white’
(or the adjective hwit ‘white’) + Old English worð
‘enclosure’. The chief places of this name are in County Durham and
Lancashire, but the surname is fairly evenly distributed throughout
northern England and the Midlands.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Whitworth Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitworth families
 68 - 134  23 - 67 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whitworth families
|
1,099 - 2,195 367 - 1,098 |
1 - 366 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitworth families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Whitworth Family Origin
Whitworth Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Whitworth
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Whitworth Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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