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Whitegift Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Whitgift,' a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire I fear this name is extinct.

Johannes Thomson de Whidgift, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

'John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born 1530, at Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire': Lempriere's Universal Biography.

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Whitegift Surname Meaning

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This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Whitgift,' a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire I fear this name is extinct.

Johannes Thomson de Whidgift, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

'John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born 1530, at Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire': Lempriere's Universal Biography.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Same as Whitgift; from Whitgift, a parish co. York, West Riding.

— Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

WHITGIFT: A parish in Yorkshire.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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