Tour Scotland Photograph Video John Whyte Window Dunning Strathearn Perthsgire

Tour Scotland video of the John Whyte memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to St Paul's Church in Dunnning, Perthshire, Scotland. In memory of John Whyte and May Wedderspoon, his wife. Placed here by their sons in 1909.

This name, with variant spellings White, Whitt, Whyte, Witt and Witts, has two possible origins; the first deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hwit " meaning white and originally given as a nickname to one with fair hair or pale complexion. The surname from this source is first recorded in the early half of the 11th Century. One Alestanus Hwit appears in the 1066 Winton Rolls of Hampshire, England, and an Alwin Wit in the Domesday Book of 1086 for Hampshire. Berwaldus le White is recorded in the 12th Century in London. A second distinct possibility is that the name is topographic for one who lived by a bend or curve in a road or river. The derivation is from the Olde English " wiht ", a bend. Ralf de Wyte and Jon Atte Wyte are recorded in Somerset and Sussex in 1279 and 1296 respectively. One William Whyte married Janet Pringle on February 21st 1650 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, in Scotland.

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