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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several places named Whitchurch from having a ‘white’ (Old English hwīt) church, i.e. probably one built of stone, as for example in Dorset, Hampshire, Shropshire, and Somerset.

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