When William Thomas Whitehead was born on 14 October 1867, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Hutchings Whitehead, was 38 and his mother, Louisa Boldy, was 40. He lived in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 9 May 1937, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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