Whitehead Family History
Whitehead Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for someone with fair or
prematurely white hair, from Middle English whit ‘white’ +
heved ‘head’.Irish (Connacht): erroneous translation of
Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed
one’ (see Canavan), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ +
bán ‘white’.Translated form of German Weisshaupt
(see Weishaupt) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitehead
Name Distribution of Whitehead Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitehead families
 3,583 - 7,164  1,195 - 3,582 |
 1 - 1,194  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitehead families
|
73 - 144 25 - 72 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Whitehead Family Origin
Whitehead Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Whitehead Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Whitehead Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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