Medieval Whitney Families

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The Medieval period is typically used to describe the time period from 500 to 1500 A.D. It was followed by the Early Modern period.

Timeline

• Medieval Whitney Timeline

Main Medieval Whitney Branches

• Whitneys of Whitney
• Whitneys of Clifford
• Whitneys of Castleton
• Whitneys of Westminster
• Whitneys of Coole Pilate

Major Sources for Medieval Whitney Research

• Whitney and Clifford Manorial Records
• Prerogative Court of Canterbury Records
• Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896)
• Henry Austin Whitney, Memoranda Relating to Families of the Name of Whitney in England (Boston: 1859)
• Henry Austin Whitney, The First Known Use of Whitney as a Surname: Its Probable Signification, and Other Data (Boston, MA: Henry Austin Whitney, 1875)
• Consistory Court of Hereford, Wills and Administrations
• Archive:Welsh Genealogies
• Archive:Golden Grove
• Archive:Herefordshire, England Probate Records
• Archive:Visitation of Leicester
• Archive:Visitations of Berkshire
• Archive:Welsh Cistercians
• Archive:Fasti Herefordensis

External Resources

• Whitney and Clifford Manuscripts at the University of Wales Bangor
• List of the Medieval Fortified Sites of the historic county of Herefordshire
• Wills of Herefordshire
• Transcription Resources

All Medieval Whitney Families

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