When Enoch Whitehurst was born on 9 April 1850, in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Whikhurst, was 24 and his mother, Susannah Harding, was 20. He married Mary Hough on 14 February 1870, in Odd Rode, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Smallthorne, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England in 1881. He died on 27 December 1882, in Ford, Warren, Iowa, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States.
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English (Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire): habitational name from Whitehurst in Dilhorne (Staffordshire), named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + hyrst ‘wood’, and sometimes from some other place with the same origin, such as Whithurst in Kirdford (Sussex).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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