Joshua Whitehead

MaleMarch 1855–20 May 1855

Brief Life History of Joshua

When Joshua Whitehead was born in March 1855, in Manchester, Clay, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Alexander Whitehead, was 29 and his mother, Susan Blanton, was 20. He died on 20 May 1855, in his hometown, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

William Alexander Whitehead
1826–1920
Susan Blanton
1835–1865
John P Whitehead
1851–
Jemima A Whitehead
1852–1946
Nancy C Whitehead
1854–1912
Washington Whitehead
1856–
Millard Whitehead
1860–
Joshua Whitehead
1855–1855
Andrew Jackson Whitehead
1859–1911
Samuel L. Whitehead
1863–1936
Mary E Whitehead
1865–1954

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    Name Meaning

    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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