Wheate History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Wheate family

The surname Wheate was first found in Norfolk, where the name appeared in the mid-12th century. The Wheate name has several possible origins. The most obvious is that it is a metonymic occupational name and that the first bearer was a wheat farmer. Another possibility is that it was originally a nickname for someone who ate a lot of wheat or who bore some resemblance to wheat, perhaps in hair color. Still another possibility is that the name is completely unrelated to wheat, coming instead from the old English word hwoet, which meant active, bold or brave.

Early History of the Wheate family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Wheate research. Another 69 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1157, 1180, 1249, 1327, 1484, 1563, 1633, 1667, 1690, 1693, 1695, 1708, 1717, 1721, 1722, 1727, 1746, 1846 and 1944 are included under the topic Early Wheate History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Wheate Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Wheat, Wheate, Whate, Weate, Weet, Wete and others.

Early Notables of the Wheate family

Notables of this surname at this time include:

Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet (1667-1721), an English politician, Member of Parliament for Woodstock (1690-1695) and (1708-1721), Storekeeper of the Ordnance (1717-1721.) His son, Sir Thomas Wheate...
One of the two had the house remodelled with a Georgian elevation of seven bays. In 1746, Sir Thomas died without a male heir and the baronetcy passed to his brother Sir George Wheate, 3rd Baronet. Th...

Migration of the Wheate family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Joshua Wheat, who arrived in New England in 1635; at the young age of 17; as well as Moses Wheat, who arrived there seven years later, in 1642. Further North, in what was to become Canada, Solo Wheat arrived in Nova Scotia in 1760..

Contemporary Notables of the name Wheate (post 1700) +

Sir John Thomas Wheate (1749-1816), 6th Baronet of Glympton in the County of Oxford, English peer
Sir Jacob Wheate (d. 1783), 5th Baronet of Glympton in the County of Oxford, English peer
Sir George Wheate (d. 1760), 4th Baronet of Glympton in the County of Oxford, English peer
Sir George Wheate (1700-1751), 3rd Baronet of Glympton in the County of Oxford, English peer
Nial J. Wheate PhD, FRACI, CChem, FHEA (b. 1976), Australian pharmaceutical chemist at the University of Sydney