When Luke Whittle was born in 1721, in Queniborough, Leicestershire, England, his father, William Whittle, was 11718 and his mother, Joyce Roddle, was 42. He died in 1742, at the age of 21.
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English: habitational name from Whittle (Lancashire, Northumberland), Whittle le Woods (Lancashire), or a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) white hill’, from Middle English whit(te) ‘white’ + hil(le) ‘hill’. Alternatively, a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) clear spring or stream’, from Middle English whit(te) + wel(la), wel(l)e ‘spring, stream’. Occasionally, this name may have been confused with Whitehall .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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