Whiting Name Study
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Surnames/tags: Whiting Whitting Weiting
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How to Join
Please contact the project leader Chris Goff or post a comment on this page If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!
Project Goal
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname WHITING and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
Origins and Meaning
This interesting surname, of Anglo-Saxon origin, is a patronymic from the Olde English pre 7th Century "Hwita" meaning "the white one". The surname first appears in the late 11th Century and has a number of variant forms ranging from Whiteing, and Whitting to Witting. Recordings of the name include: John Witinge (1128 - 1134) in the Cartularium Monasterii, and William Whiting (1197) in the Pipe Rolls of Buckinghamshire. Church Records show Rachell, daughter of Roger Whiting, who was christened on May 28th 1579 in St. Thomas the Apostle, London, and Sara, daughter of Robert Whiting, who was christened on December 15th 1605 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London. John Whiting, aged 22 yrs., a famine emigrant, sailed from Liverpool aboard the "Isabella", bound for New York on September 11th 1846. A Coat of Arms granted to the Whiting family depicts a leopard's gold face between two flaunches ermine, and in chief three plates, on a blue shield. The Crest is a demi eagle displayed with two heads proper. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Roger Witenc, which was dated 1084, in the "Geld Roll of Somerset", during the reign of King William 1, known as "The Conqueror", 1066 - 1087. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
Source Surname Database
See also the Wikipedia entry.
Guild of One Name Studies
The Guild of One Name Studies shows Whiting-GLOBAL as the registered study for this name with the variants:- Whitting, Weiting, Whighting, Whightinge, Whiteing, Whithting, Whitinge, Whittinge, Whyting, and Witting.
There is a separate study, focused on the Whiteing variation of the name. Further information can be found at www.whiteing.info.
Project Members
- Chris Goff Whitng's in Hampshire, England, and New Zealand - see Category:Alton and Wey Valley, England, Whiting Name Study
- Jaime (Roder) Ruiz Whiting's in Wisconsin and Massachusetts (maternal great grandmother).
- E.Compton Whiting's in Connecticut.
WikiTree Resources
Just change the name to get variants.
Related One Name Studies
Note that there is some overlap with the Whitten Name Study although this is not a registered variant of Whiting.
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There is no need to notify anyone - as long as the category Category:location, Whiting Name Study (in double square brackets) and Sticker One Name Study|name=Whiting (in double curly brackets) are there and the Category exists then that's all that is required. If the Category is a new one then either add it to the structure or by all mean let me know. Chris
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