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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English

Meaning & History

English habitational name from Whitemarsh, a place in the parish of Sedgehill, Wiltshire, named from Old English hwit ‘white’ (i.e. ‘phosphorescent’) + mersc ‘marsh’. Compare Whitmore.
Added 9/30/2014 by hkols
Edited 10/9/2016 by LMS, Frollein Gladys and hkols