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"English: habitational name from any of several places named Whitworth, from the Old English byname HwÄ«ta meaning ‘white’ (or the adjective hwÄ«t ‘white’) + Old English worð ‘enclosure’. The chief places of this name are in County Durham and Lancashire, but the surname is fairly evenly distributed throughout northern England and the Midlands." http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/whitworth?detoured=1
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Its a very old English surname originally spelt Witewurd which meant a inhabitant of a white enclosure. Your ancestors most probably originated from the British Isles.There are many ways of spelling Whitworth and they all mean the same thing.
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+5 In the old West people from the East were considered weak and foolish. When a trail hand had to produce fecal materials he would tell the others he had to "Whitworth". Every one knew what he meant
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