Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Whitehead was born in 1861, in Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Whitehead, was 42 and his mother, Grace Henderson, was 40. He died on 9 August 1886, at the age of 25.
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1819–1887 Male
1821–1898 Female
Siblings (7)
1839–1860 Male
1839–1890 Male
1842–1853 Male
1847–1866 Female
1853–1871 Female
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World Events (3)
1868 · The Representation of the people (Scotland) Act 1868
Age 7
1874 · Patronage abolished in the Church of Scotland.
Age 13
1884
Age 23
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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