When Daisy Waite was born about 1881, in Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, Bartholomew Waite, was 42 and her mother, Mary Ann, was 40. She died after 1881, in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a watchman, either in a town or castle, from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman, member of the watch’ (of ancient Germanic origin; compare Wachter ). In the Middle Ages the town waits typically combined the functions of watchmen and musicians through being trumpeters or pipers. There may also have been some late confusion with White or Wheat .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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