Brief Life History of Winifred
When Winifred Whitehead was born in September 1891, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Alfred Whitehead, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Rozenia Houtz, was 22. She married John Walter Osborne on 20 May 1914, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 23 September 1972, at the age of 81, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (19)
- Winifred Hamilton in household of Salem E Hamilton, "United States Census, 1940"
- Winifred Osborne, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Winifred H Reiber, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
Spouse and Children
1886–1966 Male
1891–1972 Female
Children (2)
1919–2019 Female
1922–1989 Male
Parents and Siblings
1867–1943 Male
1869–1944 Female
Siblings (3)
1891–1972 Female
1893–1951 Male
1901–1988 Female
World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 5
1904 · Hobble Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant
Age 13
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
Age 22
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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