The Whitney Family of Connecticut and Its Affiliations Vol. 1: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants as Well in the Female as the Male Lines of Henry Whitney From 1649 to 1878; To Which Is Prefixed Some Account of the Whitneys of England

Excerpt from The Whitney Family of Connecticut and Its Affiliations Vol. 1: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants as Well in the Female as the Male Lines of Henry Whitney From 1649 to 1878; To Which Is Prefixed Some Account of the Whitneys of England<br><br>But more ambitious etymologies of the name are not wanting. The Rev. Dr. Giles in his history of Witney and the neighboring parishes in Oxfordshire says: But if Witney received any fresh peculiarity of char acter from the Saxons it certainly takes its name from the occupation of that busy and plodding race of men. The Witan-eye or as it is also written in the anglo-saxon or old English dialect Witan-ige evidently signifies the island of tile wise men or of t/ze parliamenta Thus the word Witney means etymologically Parliament Isle though no record has been handed down to us to tell for what reason such a name was given. There is a large house still named Parliament House at the corner Of the Crofts Lane which to the minds of some conveys a tradition concerning the etymology of the name Witney.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.