Whitty Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Whitty Name Origin

Get Free Updates about Family Crests, New Information, Stories, Special Offers and more with our Occasional Newsletter Updates

* indicates required

Email Address *

First Name *

Last Name

Origin of the Name Whitty

The ancient history of the name Whitty was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Variants of Whitty include Whitey, Wittey, Witty and Wittie. This is a locational name meaning 'at the white hay', from a residence thereby. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout the above islands. Examples of such are a Thomas ate Wytheg, County Oxfordshire, who was recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England, in the year 1273 and a Walter Williams and Jane Witty who were granted a marriage license at the Faculty Office, in the year 1632. In Ireland the name occurs frequently in Counties Wexford and Waterford from the year 1305 on. They owned and built the Castles of Ballhealy, Baldwinstown and Ballyteige in County Wexford. Ballyteige was their principal seat. By the seventeenth century they were numerous in County Wexford where in modern times they are still found.