Frances Whitehead was born on 16 October 1919, in South Carolina, United States. She married Malcom Edward Hannah on 24 February 1940, in Santa Rosa, Florida, United States. She died on 29 June 1988, in Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States, at the age of 68.
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 ).
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