When Cpt. Joseph White was born in 1745, in Orange, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Lilly White Sr, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Denton, was 20. He had at least 5 sons and 8 daughters with Martha E Lusk. He lived in Burke, North Carolina, United States in 1790. He died on 8 June 1793, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Burke, North Carolina, United States.
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English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesCaptain Major Joseph White, of the North Carolina militia. The following was taken from the Joseph White Family Bible, dated 1751 at Belfast, Ireland. It was located by Paul R. Welch of Milwaukee, W …
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