Surnames in England were originally largely derived from one of three sources. The location they were associated with, their occupation or the given name of their father. My Whitaker ancestors are no exception and fall into the first category of location based names.
Whitaker surname origins
May 29, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Whitacre, Whitaker, Whiteacre, Whittaker
Birthday Review
July 15, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Blatch, Frome, Golledge, review, Shoscombe, Swift, Wellow, Whitaker
The Family Connections Blog is one year old today and I thought it might be a good time to review some of the years postings.
Edward Thomas Whitaker (1802-1877)
November 21, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Bratton, Whitaker
The following obituary appeared on March 24, 1877 in The Law Times, Volume LXII, page 378.
Geoffrey Whitaker, gentleman.
October 28, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Dismer, Dismore, Eins, Foyle, Freeman, Kinge, Lawrence, Mortymer, Noyse, Slower, Smith, Spencer, Waterman, Whitaker
Inquisition taken at Marlborough, 4th April, 2 Charles I [1626], before John Foyle, esquire, escheator, after the death of Geoffery Whitaker, gentleman, by the oath of Richard Smith, gentleman, John Spencer, gentleman, George Mortymer, gentleman, Bartholomew Smith, gentleman, Alexander Dismer, Henry Smith, John Noyse, Thomas Smith, John Waterman, Edward Dismore, Thomas Slower, Thomas Eins, Thomas Freeman, Thomas Kinge, and John Lawrence, who say that
George Whitaker leaves for Toronto
October 21, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Irving, Parry, Whitaker
George Whitaker (1811-1822) was appointed first provost and professor of divinity of the University of Trinity College, Toronto Canada in 1851, Volume V of the The Colonial Church Chronicle, and Missionary Journal. which covers the period from July 1851 to June 1852 carried the following story in the Colonial, Foreign and Home News section.
Joshua Cecil Whitaker (1841- )
September 11, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Andrews, Bratton, Brinkworth, Reeves, Saffery, Whitaker
Joshua Cecil Whitaker was born in 1841 at Bratton, Wiltshire, England the second son of Joshua Whitaker and Jane Saffery. His father was a prominent local farmer, having some 950 acres and employing 36 men. His mother was the daughter of Baptist minister John Saffrey of Salisbury, Wiltshire and his hymn writing wife Maria Grace Andrews.
Henry Whitaker (1642-1684)
August 16, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Aldridge, Blatch, Bratton, Liddiard, Whitaker
Henry Whitaker was baptised on November 2, 1642 at Bratton, Wiltshire, England the seventh of eight children of John Whitaker and second wife Margaret Aldridge. There were also three children from his first marriage to Dionise Aldridge, believed to be Margaret’s sister. About 1664 Henry married Ann Blatch of Bratton, daughter of Phillip Blatch and Maude Liddiard, a union which was to produce ten children.
Marjorie Ethel Reeves (1905-2003)
July 29, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Bratton, Oxford, Reeves, Whitaker
Marjorie Ethel Reeves was born at Bratton, Wiltshire on July 17, 1905 the second daughter of Robert John W. Reeves and Edith Sarah Whitaker. Her father’s family owned and ran a successful iron works in the village making agricultural machinery. Her mothers family could trace its continuous presence in Bratton from 1576. Marjorie was brought up in Wiltshire and educated at the High School for Girls in Trowbridge before studying modern history at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Alfred Whitaker (1799-1852)
July 24, 2007 at 5:49 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Andrews, Bratton, Frome, Waylen, Whitaker, Woolbert
Alfred Whitaker was born on 27 Jul 1799, at Bratton, Wiltshire, England, the son of Philip Whitaker and Anne Andrews. The first recorded evidence that Alfred Whitaker was practising as a solicitor in Frome, Somerset is on May 6, 1823, Alfred Whitaker, Solicitor, Frome and his clerk J. Buller are witnesses to the will of James Clement, Clothier of Frome. Both of them were also witnesses to a codicil to the will dated March 22, 1825. The will was proved on May 11, 1825 by the executors at PCC London.
Anne (Whitaker) Drewett (1665-1742)
July 22, 2007 at 6:44 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Blatch, Bratton, Drewett, Drewitt, Hearne, Pinnock, Whitaker
Anne Drewett (nee Whitaker) was born on March 23, 1665/6 at Bratton, Wiltshire, England, the eldest daughter of Yeoman farmer Henry Whitaker and his wife Ann Blatch.
