Brief Life History of Alfred
Alfred White was born in 1834, in Alabama, United States. He married Sarah Frances Mangum after 1875, in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Alfred in entry for Sarah F White, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
- Alfred in entry for Sarah F White, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Alfred in entry for Sarah F. White, "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946"
Spouse and Children
1834– Male
1838–1889 Female
World Events (3)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 2
1846
Age 12
1863
Age 29
Name Meaning
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.
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