| Show OO O O O O O D O O O O O O O OO O O O 1 ar C O m GENEALOGY V SI The Wh ITS ORIGIN tn y Family I u h U V HITNEY as ns a surname owes noes Its orl origin Jn to tho the ancient but obscure ob score parish of or Whitney on tho rho estern confines of or f Herefordshire re near e Q border or of ales 1 This Is 18 not to bo be Unfounded mounded with In n Iro famous for tor Its manufacture of at wool wool- goods But possibly y both h names namese e the same samo In n meaning and VO ve not stays 48 been differently spelled In ancient records a as l appears IUne n R Hene R ye Whitney hd d Whitney we find also 0 written written 14 1 etc ete Ules Iles In the valley of oC the river soi Wye Is here hore a mountain mountain torrent sett set set- sub sub- ct et t to sudden and destructive freshets ila is hi circumstance affords a a probable of Its name Whitney Whitney bet be- be t perhaps derived from the Anglo Anglo- g e eyon yon xon on words white ey ey wate water id d so literally meaning w white white Ile water r her her examples In n Herefordshire tc are arc ten BOH In n notes and q queries s fifth series lume plume 6 page Whit bourn urn the Ite brook Whit church the white rc 10 church and Whit ton the white wn tho the last laRt of oC which occurs In six her places in England But more amlous am- am lous etymologies Ies of at the name are not nUns inline The he Rev Re Dr Giles In his history of and the neighboring parishes Ox Ire says as a's But Bu t If t Witney nn any fresh tresh peculiarity of ot charter charter char char- ter cr from the tho Saxons axons H Jt certainly es cs its name from train the occupation of ot oft ott t bus busy and plodding race of at men be e eye or or as It is also written Saxon Anglo or Old English dialect tan n 1 a evidently signified the e ef 1st- 1st Sd d to of at f the tho theIse the Wise Ise Men Men len or of or the Par- Par meat ment B By parliament in this this cantlon con con- tion should be understood merely an e of ot tho the or wise Iso men mon monahe ahe tole or shire and not a a. great reat council of ot the tho Saxons Anglo ns in which which w en is s genitive of ot as i it was led ed Thus the word W Witney ey means parliament island ugh no record has been e eto n handed to us to tell for tor what reason such name ILme was given elven Iven There Is a large use so still named Parliament house at r n of or the fen l Croft Crofts I Lane ane which to of at some me-co me conveys veys- veys a tradition the etymology of ot the name Itne Itney r. r Thomas Wright the eminent Saxon Klo-Saxon scholar made other sug- sug In a lottor letter addres addressed cd to o Mr nr nry Austin Whitney February 1 1 11 iSO 0 0 I I 1 think Dr Giles Giles' derivation 01 of In a a. vcr very probable Some meeting of or tho the Itan or orIn oring ding ing In men of ot the district had proby ly y been held there and the island island been named from it like what is he hei called Magna Charta Charts Island in t the ames But the great s difficulty difficulty inding In Inding ding the derivation and mo moaning ns o of se local names arises from the clr- clr that the namo name is in the malty malty malty ma ma- of at the cases derived from that that ta a Saxon possessor of at the land I think Whitney is not tho the same ng lag a. a as Witney It has either cither some seme Ing to do with white or It ft perhaps a mans man's name as 0 c. c the Island belonging to here ere Is certainly no Improbability supposing that Igo ige or ege ego ege signify signify- island was the termination of at a situated as Iton Iton it iton on the river Wye Wyo and at times wed iwed by it it indeed the thed old oM church lor d rectory were entire entirely washed awa away mountain torrents In n 1730 is First Whitney ustace De Dc Whitney was of Flemish cent Of ot his hie mother A Agnes Acnes nes It Is In Doomsday Book Boole Bool Agnes lets et Eustas Eustis Eusta- Eusta s Miles Mlles films filius eats Dominus do de itney Sancti rl 11 in comb etc Agnes widow of tho the Fleming and Sir Eustace Lord of Whitney gave ave t to the the Lich of St. St Peter Pater at Gloucester o one onee e e acres of land in fn b Some of at tho early Lords Lor ds of t Whit Whit- were of or Welsh descent one one of ofin om om in Sir Pledge e was a a. Knight ht the Round Table and to King Arra Arrs Ar- Ar Arrs Arr's rs ra t r e be he lived at his castle at nt at l fter fter fler the conquest the manor of Une- Une so called called was given Iven by Wilm WIlm WIl- WIl m the Conqueror to ono one his soldiers It of or was one o nine Lets granted anted to this same person acInI ac- ac InI to tho the Doomsday Book and tho the b upon which he settled He o e was a valiant fighter tighter one of at th the tho there them sea rovers who joined tho the they thoy y of William on tho the exp expedition for conquest of at England The amount bounty allotted him by William ws that ho he was a a. man of position consequence He was specially to guard the frontiers In lost at the Incursions of at the Welsh for this purpose had his castle Bitted Bit Bit- ted on the Wye e and within the of ot the present manor of ot Whit Whit- lis son who inherited his perty pert assumed t the tiie h e name namo of ot Whit Whit- r. r which eh has been borne from that to e. e to the tho present tint time the e were the chief men In n vicinity sheriffs of ot the county and hers ibers of ot parliament Several of at lost th their lr lives in the wars at ate e and abroad to which they were l b by their kings dc so of King ICing Henry IV dated 14 14 1414 commences as ns folS foli fol- fol i S he Ring King to All An to Whom etc j eUng Know eting g Know yr yo r that since the theer theler I ler er of at Robert Robort Esquire his undo uncle and a n great reat part of ot his a bons have been killed In our T at the capture of ot Edmund Morto- Morto T. T and his property has hils been burned 1 destroyed by our rebels of Wales that the said Robert has not an any Tile Lie e or Ot fortress where hero he can tarry tarry Y U JU V to r resist and d punish 1 our aforesaid rebels reb rob els cIs us tv wo We o accept We c o of ot f our special grace have lut granted to th the tho said Robert Hubert tho the Castle of ot Clifford and an anthea HIP thea lordships of or Clifford and Glasbury th all an the thc lands tenements tR etc B By this act the lordship of or Clifford on tho opposite side of ot the Wyo yo an and ad adjacent cent to Whitney was added to th the e domain of the and has so re rc remaIned remained re- re until the tho present day In the last part of ot the thc seventeenth sc century Sir Thomas Whitney lord u of these estates died leaving his son S1 Sir r Robert Hobert Whitney as his hL heir St Sir Robert had hac four sons who all died d without Issue He lie also hall hail tour four r u dt daughters to whom his estate descended descend descend- ed fd upon his several without t issue One of or these daughters Hannah married mar mar- ried Robert Rodd to whom and th tho o other dau daughters tho the estates came apParent apparently ap ap- Parent by the law of at inheritance Through h them It ultimately came t to t i William Warden who was tho owner owns at the time of ot the freshet by which i tho the church and the castle were ero de do destroyed de- de He lie rebuilt the church and th tho a manor house The ruins of at the tho castle castlo ma may still bo be seen where the freshet left leet them This property passed from the male malo mat o line lino of or to tho the female descendants descendants de through whom It Is still held Thus although h the name o of f Whitney still remains attached attached to tit tho property the individuals of at f that name nam e are arc not connected with it it but are arc ar widely Idely scattered both In England an and d In this country countr John Whitney Puritan Emigrant By Henry Melville Esq II He was the tho first of ot the name 1 In n America and the thc a son of Thomas Whit Whitney nay ney cen leman of Westminster b by his wife wire Mary Bray Bray ray and was baptized baptize d In St St. Margarets Margaret's the parish church I standing in the a shadow shado of ot the famous f u c 40 Abbey bbc the da day o of Jul July 1582 1532 Thomas Thomaa was nos not a n of or the tho city or of hIs re residence r i one of the silo th enoe but ha had come me from r oldest and m most aist land Jand tho the families 11 In n tho the west of En Bug Ens o on i tho the banks bank nV of oC tho the ys of f Whitney where ruins of th Wyc Wye tho crumbling still sUII be their ancestral castle ensile could border warfare warf seen r surviving His his centuries ot of uncle uncle Sir James knighted hv sor or In by Queen Elizabeth at Winford Winsor Win Win- 10 loco 0 ford for pin I Was Vs lord of or Whitney Clifford Clif- Clif Pencombe Ocle chard Kings Cal Cape ell 1 I Id Clifton Cllfton i nc a v and ch- ch chand and sl sheriff of at Robert nii i his his his' grandfather Si Sir r knighted by Quern 1553 1563 1553 Mary In represented P ed cn that county in par par- Ih traced trace back hn and v from rom the tho I- I could b bo n 1 a a ion knightly line 0 of or f and Do twelfth to th the tho o century when the name T orl and beyond them Norman testers ii an- an with h other names even to tho the thor conquest One or r moro more ot of his forefathers hn had gone on a a. crusade to the tho Holy Hoh Land ono onoe had taught fought under Edward Y t In th tho e Scotch war ot of 1301 another had o represented preSented Richard II abroad In Important important Im- Im slain sin affairs Of state and had been n at atthe the tho capture of Edmund Mortimer a fourth had followed henry Y V In tho the u triumphs of En English Ush 1 arms In France race firth fifth h a had iad risked land and life for tor the White Rose and ha had d I I bard had hart his hie praises 3 sung sun b by tho the Welsh I Glyn Gln and nd i had i i nearly every on ono o been on sheriff of or his Is shire and ha had d sat In the great national council The They cd on their shields tho rho arms o of ot f rne I Z Ver- Ver er don Lave tot Baskerville Boteler Rees Lo Le Gros ro Sollers Brugge and T Blackett ctt and their mar mar- Flags alliances nii had end been almost without with with- out exception with tho the families whoso weed o S names e are great reat rca In ln story history through h a at ot t cast two wi of at whIch welch Thomas could claim n Mood blood r relationship to royalty ro fro from m William the Conqueror to L Edward dward ard I I. 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