When Heighes Glenford Whiteside was born on 1 February 1901, in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, his father, Henry Robinson Whiteside, was 28 and his mother, Malinda Mann, was 27. He married Alma Edna on 10 April 1936. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1923 and lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930. He died in 1999, at the age of 98, and was buried in Alliston, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English white ‘white’ + side ‘side, flank’ (Old English hwīt + sīde), perhaps referring to one who habitually wore white clothes (compare Greenside ). The name may also be habitational, from any of several places called Whiteside in southwestern Scotland and Northumberland, probably named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + sīde ‘slope, hill’. The surname was very strong in central Lancashire in the late 16th century, and it may also derive from an unidentified place in this area. The name is now common in Ireland (Antrim and Down).
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