Whitesides History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
Scotland
Ireland
England

Early Origins of the Whitesides family

The surname Whitesides was first found in Lanarkshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig) a former county in the central Strathclyde region of Scotland, now divided into the Council Areas of North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, and the City of Glasgow, where they held a family seat on the lands of Whiteside from very early times. 1

Further south in England, records there show Richard Whitside, Cambridgeshire in the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 and Willelmus Whitesyde in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379. 2

Early History of the Whitesides family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Whitesides research. Another 125 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1575, 1625, 1649, 1740, 1752, 1804, 1806, 1822, 1829, 1830, 1832, 1876 and 1890 are included under the topic Early Whitesides History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Whitesides Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Whiteside, Whitesides and others.

Early Notables of the Whitesides family

Notable amongst the family at this time was James Whiteside (1804-1876), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, born on 12 Aug. 1804 at Delgany, co. Wicklow, of which parish his father, William Whiteside, was curate. Shortly after Whiteside's birth his father moved to Rathmines, near Dublin, where he died in 1806. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1822, and graduated B.A. in 1832. In 1829...
Another 63 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Whitesides Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Whitesides Ranking

In the United States, the name Whitesides is the 10,960^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 3

Migration of the Whitesides family to Ireland

Some of the Whitesides family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Another 112 words (8 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Whitesides migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Whitesides Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

John Whitesides, aged 48, who landed in New York in 1812 4
George Whitesides, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1841 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Whitesides (post 1700) +

Daniel "Dan" Whitesides (b. 1977), American drummer of rock band The Used
Kevin Whitesides (b. 1964), American racing driver
Tyler Whitesides, American writer and author of the middle grade fantasy series Janitors
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, American public speaker, co-creator of Yuri's Night, and an author on space exploration
George Thomas Whitesides, American CEO of Virgin Galactic, a firm developing commercial space vehicles at the Mojave Air and Space Port, son of George M Whitesides
Jacob Michael Whitesides (b. 1997), American singer-songwriter from Knoxville, Tennessee
George M. Whitesides (b. 1939), American multiple award winning chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University
Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
Thomas Whitesides (1836-1919), Australian cricketer who played two first-class matches for Tasmania between 1858 and 1869

Citations +

Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)