When Louisa Elizabeth Whitehead was born in 1837, her father, Charles Waldron Whitehead, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Ann Neal, was 41. She married William Toase in 1859, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Wakefield St Mary, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Alverthorpe, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died in 1879, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 42.
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English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
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