When Beatrix Whitmore was born before 1292, in Caunton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Sir Richard Whitmore Lord of Whitmore, was 30 and her mother, Lady Susannah de Draycote of Caunton, Nottinghamshire, was 24.
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English: habitational name from Whitmoor (Devon) or Whitmore (Staffordshire and Dorset), or from any of numerous other places in England with names denoting a white moor or mere (from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + mōr ‘moor’ or mere ‘pool’).
History: Francis Whitmore settled in Cambridge, MA, before 1648.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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