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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Whitemore.
  • Thomas Whittemore came from England to Charlestown, MA, in or about 1639. Amos Whittemore, born in Cambridge, MA, in 1759 was an inventor and gunsmith, and another Thomas Whittemore was born in Boston in 1800; he was a Universalist clergyman and MA legislator.

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