When Charles Thomas Whitehead was born on 31 August 1885, in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Bethal Kitson Whitehead, was 28 and his mother, Mary, was 28. He married Nellie Holmes Milner about April 1920.
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London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
During WWI Zeppelin raids took place all over England. The first of the raids happened from June 6-7, 1915, in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. During the attack 24 people were killed 40 injured, and 40 houses destroyed.
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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