This page is an extension of the WHITAKER FAMILY EXCHANGE PAGES.
The Exchange pages are now exclusively dedicated to listings by
WHITAKER FAMILY RESEARCHERS.
Please BOOKMARK. -- This page was updated on April 24, 2008.
Refresh often to catch future updates.
This extended WHITAKER site
is divided into six sections:
1. WHITAKER links to web sites.
2. Summary article: WHITAKER Families in Colonial America
3. A Bibliography of WHITAKER Resources.
4. GenTutor's online charts and forms to assist you.
5. Ideas for Creating Surname Scrapbooks on CDs
6. Introduction to Beverly and Bob Whitaker, your hosts for these pages.
Link also to:
Whitaker Bio-sketches related specifically to Bob Whitaker
WHITAKER Links
-- Have you heard about the "Whittaker DNA TESTING"?
You may be wondering whether DNA testing would help you determine cousin relationships among the many WHITAKER families. Surname DNA studies take this a step further. Such a study now exists for WHITTAKER/WHITAKER and variant spellings. If this interests you, learn more about it, starting at this web site:
http://www.couchgenweb.com/whitaker/
-- Have you visited the "Whitaker Family Genealogy Forum"?
GenForum has its own Search Engine, making it possible to search for a specific WHITAKER from the messages submitted. And you can submit a message or respond to one. There's a separate site for WHITTAKER and WHITACRE, but they are inter-related if you check "Use proximity matching." We all know the records on a particular individual may spell the surname more than one way!
http://genforum.genealogy.com/whitaker
http://genforum.genealogy.com/whittaker/
http://genforum.genealogy.com/whitacre/
-- Did you know there is also a WHITAKER mailing list through RootsWeb?
Participation in this list will bring you queries and information about various WHITAKER families! Get started at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/whitaker.html
And you might also check out the WHITACRE mailing list at RootsWeb since that's one of the earliest common spellings for the name.
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/whitacre.html
-- The Whitacre Genealogy Center is designed to assist all WHITACRE researchers as well as Whitaker, Whittaker, Whiticar, etc. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~whitacre/ You can join their e-mail list. Most of their members descend from John Whitaker born 1678 in England and died 1737 Bucks Co, PA.
-- WHITAKER RESOURCES, a compilation in progress. Can you add to it?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/WhitBooks.html
-- SURNAME SEARCH via the INTERNET [links updated May 2007]
Check for YOUR Whitaker! Add your own lineage. Several web sites allow persons to place surname lists and/or GEDCOMs on their servers. Anyone using the Internet can visit these sites and search for a surname of interest. Several of these sites offer additional fee-based services.
All Surnames Search Page
Ancestry.com
Distantcousin.com
Genealogy.com
Genealogy Today Surname Finder
Surname Finder
Surname Search Portal
The USGenWeb Census Project
World Connect at RootsWeb
-- WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Curious about your name's meaning or its place geographically?
Last Name Meanings
Surname Profiler (Great Britain)
U.S. Surname Distribution
Gens US Surname Map
WHITAKER Families in Colonial America
Compiled by Beverly Whitaker
Among the first settlers in North America was Richard Whitacar who left his home in London at the time of the great plague or after the great fire, probably landing in Maryland. He then went to West Jersey, about 1665 or 1666. He became a member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers.
Another distinct New Jersey family traced its descent to Jonathan Whitaker, born in England about 1690, died in Basking Ridge in 1763; his reason for leaving was on account of religious persecution. In New England, there was an Abraham Whitaker, born in England in 1604, who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
There were Whitakers in Virginia. One of the first was Alexander Whitaker, son of the Rev. William Whitaker, master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. Alexander, upon graduation from that college took orders in the church. In 1611, he went to Virginia where he built a church and laid foundations for another. His chief claim to fame is the fact that he baptized Pocahontas, and he also officiated at her marriage to John Rolfe. His death came by drowning, in the James River. Although he apparently had no children, his brother Jabez Whitaker did found a sizable American family in the South. Jabez was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1623 and 1624. He was the ancestor of the many Whitakers who located in Warwick County, Virginia, later migrating to Enfield, North Carolina; some of the family went to Georgia. Still another Whitaker family in Virginia used the spelling of two t's. This family would have been in the late colonial period--unknown Whittaker and his wife Lucetta. They had 3 children: William Whittaker was born between 1810 and 1820 in Virginia. James Munroe Whittaker was born in 1811, married Susan Beasley 13 Feb 1833 in Caroline, Virginia, is there also in the 1860 census. Edmund was born in Caroline, Virginia, in 1822 and married and died there.
In early Maryland, at least two apparently unrelated families appear. John Whitacre and his first wife Catherine appear in the Register of St. George’s Parish; his second wife, Mary, is mentioned in his will. At Spesutia Hundred, was Mark Whitaker who died in 1729, wives (1) Catherine and (2) Elizabeth Emson.
Pennsylvania’s John Whitacre was born in 1678, Barley, Lancashire, England. He came to America as a single man in about 1699 from Thet, Yorkshire, England and settled among Quakers in PA.. He died in 1737, Makefield Twp., Bucks Co, PA. There, in 1702, John Whitacre married Jane (BOND) Scott, widow of John SCOTT. Children of John Whitacre: (1)John Whitacre, Jr, (1704-1768) married Naomi HULME. (2) Robert Whitacre, (1706-1790) married first to Mary D. Hall in 1725 and later, in 1732, married Sarah TOMLINSON.
William Whitaker, was born February 10, 1701, probably in Lancashire, England. Prior to the 1719 death of his father Joshua, he moved with his parents and siblings to Timahoe, Ireland, then to Dublin. In 1720, he came to Philadelphia, following his uncles John (see above) and James who had gone to Pennsylvania some years earlier. William was a Quaker.. In 1721, he was received by the Newark MM, Chester County, PA., on certificate from the Dublin MM. William married Elizabeth Carleton. After a devastating fire in their second home in western Pennsylvania, they moved about 1751 to Old Rowan County in North Carolina, most of their children migrating with them.
The family of Robert Whitaker, father of the Surry Co., NC Whitakers, came to the area about 1778/79. His name was found on a request for a land grant but was marked through, thus nulling it. Mary, his wife, and sons, William and Jonathan, applied for land. One may reason from that that Robert was deceased, because women did not apply or get grants with few exceptions unless they were widows. They settled in the Siloam section of Surry.
It is difficult to separate all these persons, particularly since the same given names were used among several Whitaker families, some of whom have been mentioned here. Corrections are expected and additions are also welcome.
Send email to Beverly and Bob Whitaker at: gentutor@yahoo.com
In the subject line, write: COLONIAL WHITAKER FAMILIES
A Bibliography of WHITAKER Resources
A Work in Progress, Compiled by Beverly Whitaker
Full bibliographic citations need to be added, with your help!
Send us your additions and corrections.
NOTE: The books listed below are not in our personal library, but we've seen portions of them.
You may have to do some searching on your own to find them!
Allen, Sarah Cantey Whitaker. Our Children's Ancestors.
American Genealogical Research Institute. Whitaker Family History.
Anderson, Rual P. The Early Settlers: Spaid, Andrews, Whitacre Families and Their Descendants. 1987.
[John Whitaker and Jane Parker Scott, widow of John Scott]
[Mid-Continent Library, North Independence Branch, Independence, MO]
Fetters, William Brooke. Six Columbiana County, Ohio Pioneer Families.
[Descendants of John Whitacre of Makefield, Greenwich, and Loudoun Co., VA]
Hunt, Grace. 1973.
[Book about Jabez Whitaker's descendants who migrated from Virginia to North Carolina to Tennessee.]
Jackson, Hester Bartlett. The Descendants of William Whitaker and His Brother Jonathan Whitaker I of Surry County North Carolina.
Lenoir, Kate. The Whitakers and Related Family Lines. 1965.
Littel, John. Genealogy and History of the Early Settlers of the Passiac Valley.
Littel, John. Van Voorhees Family in America and Early Settlers in Passiac Valley. 1852.
Whitaker, Beaumont W. "The Whitaker Family of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1677-1767"
["Maryland Historical Magazine," Vol. 79, No. 2, Summer 1984, pp 165-182]
[John Whitacre and (1)Catherine____ (2)Mary ___ of Baltimore Co., MD, in that portion later Harford Co.]
Whitaker, Bill. Whitakers 1086-1990.
Whitaker, Bruce. The Whitaker Family of Buncombe County, North Carolina. 1989.
[Ancestry and Descendants of Joshua Whitaker and Jane Parker, with particular emphasis on the family of his son William Whitaker and wife Elizabeth Carleton in PA and NC.]
Online Charts and Forms to Assist You
Here's some help for you as you try to determine family relationships. Take a look at my Family Relationship Chart . You are welcome to print it off and make use of it in identifying family connections. Just imagine what fun it can be to figure out just how all your WHITAKER correspondents are related to you! This particular chart is only for five generations, but you can easily extend it yourself or purchase one from a vendor. The ones I had seen all used confusing abbreviations; so I prepared this easy-to-comprehend variation. And perhaps you might like to use one of my other online charts to evaluate and record your family history.
Family Record Sheet
Pedigree Plotter
A nice selection of free downloadable forms including census forms is available from both Family Tree Magazine and Ancestry.com. I've placed links for both at my web site, Genealogy Tutor Tips.
Surname CD Project: Ideas for Creating Surname Scrapbooks on CDs
More than a year ago, Beverly created a CD on Bob's ancestral branch of the WHITAKER family -- the descendants of Joshua Whitaker of Richmond and Columbia Counties in Georgia. The format is entirely HTML which allows the user to browse through all 60 pages, using their own Internet browser. It's not published on the web, just on CDs distributed to the immediate family, including data on present generations. In addition to text, there are numerous photographs and document images. By careful pre-planning, the contents of the CD can be printed as 8 1/2 x 11" pages, for those who want a printed "book" in addition to an "e-book."
I must add, however, that in my subsequent CD Projects of Family History (for other surnames), I am using a different method. I have switched to producing PDF documents instead. A variety of PDF creation software is now available. The files I create in PDF are much smaller than the HTML method, and I've found them to be a good deal easier to create. I can still include photos, documents, charts, and text. I find it works best to create a separate file for each generation plus additional files of genealogical charts. Together, they form chapters of an "e-book." These Family History Scrapbook Pages are again placed onto Surname CDs and distributed to relatives. Recipients can read and print any or all the pages using the popular free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Now, I can report that I've created six additional scrapbooks on various family lines, using the PDF method. The response from family members receiving the CDs has been tremendously satisfying. I also printed off copies and bound them with a simple comb binding for elderly members of the family who don't have computers.
I urge you to preserve your own family history records, pictures, and stories on CD to share. You may want to read about what I include and the methods I now use for my digital scrapbooks.
Your hosts for both this page of WhitLinks
and the WHITAKER EXCHANGE page.
I'm Beverly DeLong Whitaker of Kansas City, Missouri.
My roots are in southeastern Iowa.
My husband is Robert Toombs Whitaker,
with roots in Columbia County, Georgia, near Augusta.
BOB:
Bob is retired from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, as statistician for the National Reports Office, Poultry Market News. He has had a lifelong interest in history. We enjoy traveling to historical sites and fit in genealogy research whenever possible. Bob's WHITAKER line in Georgia can be viewed at WorldConnect. This link will go directly to his family.
BEVERLY:
I'm a professional genealogist. Since 2005, I've been editing the quarterly newsletter for the Northland Genealogy Society of Kansas City, Missouri. And I'm involved in my DAR chapter. I research dozens of surnames in my own line and that of my husband, going back 10 to 20 generations on several of those lines. As "GenTutor," I write books and audio scripts, develop curriculum for online genealogy classes, and create genealogy and history resource guides in the form of web sites on the Internet. Currently, I provide approximately 100 web pages relating to migration trails, church history, Bible personalities, genealogy tips for beginners, bibliography recommendations, and more. Links are found at my GenTutor Directory, for which a site map bar appears at the bottom of this page.
Still another of my web sites features postcards from my grandparents' collection of approximately 800 vintage postcards from 1907-1917; I call it Postcard Memories.
Genealogy + History + Geography= Enriched Heritage
I am happy for you to share your comments and suggestions, but at the present time, I must limit my responses. Doing genealogical research, editing a newsletter, and working with curriculum units for online genealogy courses is keeping me busier than I had expected. I need to reserve some time for my volunteer commitments and my own family connections!
Email: Genealogy Tutor Beverly Whitaker
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