Wheater One-Name Study

Wheater
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Wheater One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Frequency of the name
Distribution of the name

About the Wheater One-Name Study

My database contains references to some 2700 WHEATER records from 1500 to the present day. Over 80% of these individuals have been allocated to 7 main family groups as follows;-

Group A has 388 descendants of Benjamin WHEATER who was born about 1748 near TADCASTER

Group B contains details of 788 descendants of Nicholas WHEARTER born about 1500 near GUISELEY

Group C has 240 individuals in it headed by John WHEATTER born about 1670 near BRADFORD

Group E has some 223 descendants of Mark WHEATER born about 1690 near PUDSEY

Group G contains 384 entries of the descendants of John WHERTER born about 1610 near GUISELEY

Group H has 179 individuals descended from Emmanuel WHERTER born about 1660 near CALVERLEY

Group N contains just 78 records relating to Richard WHEATER born about 1730 near WETHERBY

Variants

WHEARTER, WHERTER, WHETER,WHETHER and WHEATERS though there are few (if any) occurences of these variations after 1850

Origin of the surname

As can be seen from above the English origin of the name is in the GUISELEY area of West Yorkshire. The name may be derived from an older Viking or Saxon name and the name WITTA is listed in the Saxon Chronicles

Frequency of the name

Latest estimate is that ther are fewer than 800 living WHEATERs worldwide

Distribution of the name

The vast majority of WHEATERs still reside in the United Kingdom with the highest density in West Yorkshire. There are about 130 living WHEATERs in the United States, about 50 in Canada, 50 in Australia, 30 in New Zealand and a sprinkling elsewhere

This page last updated 25 February 2008.