Whitaker Family History
Whitaker Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named with
Old English hwit ‘white’ or hw?te ‘wheat’ +
æcer ‘cultivated land’, as for example Whitaker in
Lancashire and Whitacre in Warwickshire (both ‘white field’) or
Whiteacre in Kent and Wheatacre in Norfolk (both ‘wheat field’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitaker
Name Distribution of Whitaker Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitaker families
 2,412 - 4,822  805 - 2,411 |
 1 - 804  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitaker families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whitaker census records
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Whitaker Family Origin
Whitaker Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Whitaker Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Whitaker families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Whitaker Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Whitaker census records
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Military Service by Whitaker
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