Applewhite Family History

English:: variant of Hebblethwaite. variant of Applethwaite a habitational name from a place called Applethwaite from Old English æppel or Old Norse apaldr ‘apple tree’ + Old Norse thveit ‘meadow’. There are two such places in Cumbria.

Applethwaite is also recorded as a surname from the 13th century in Suffolk, England, pointing to a lost placename there. The form Applewhite now found predominantly in Lincolnshire goes back to the 16th century in Suffolk.