Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry White was born in 1631, in York, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Henry Fowler White, was 17 and his mother, Rebecca Arnold, was 23. He married Mary Croshaw about 22 March 1654, in York, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 6 January 1672, in his hometown, at the age of 41.
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- Will of Henry White, Marston Parish, York, VA
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1642 · County renamed
Charles River County was renamed as York County in 1642.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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