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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Whitemarsh, a place in the parish of Sedgehill, Wiltshire, named from Old English hwīt ‘white’ (i.e. ‘phosphorescent’) + mersc ‘marsh’. Compare Whitmore.

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