The whitby Surname
whitby Name Meaning and History
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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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| grandparents were John Willie Whitby | Nancy Whitby | 24 |
| John Earl Whitby |
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| grandfather,s family | Louis F. Whitby | 33 |
| Mary Whitby c 1666 |
 cristineclarke
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| Elsie Whitby - Maryland |
rtarburt
| 6 |
| Samuel WHITBY born in Cheshire m. Mary LANGFORD |
CharmaineBudz
| 19 |
| WILLIAM WHITBY b.1879 CHESHIRE |
cola1621
| 6 |
| please help explain these words....... |
huntyr55
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| WHITBY/LANGFORD |
CharmaineBudz
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| Re: WHITBY | Jill | 3 |
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