When John White was born in April 1766, in Shotteswell, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James White, was 38 and his mother, Mary Gilkes, was 29. He married Mary Marshal on 23 August 1789, in Burton Dassett, Warwickshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1840, in Whitchurch, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74, and was buried in Whitchurch, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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-.
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