| ![Show Contents]() Weet History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Weet familyThe surname Weet was first found in Norfolk, where the name appeared in the mid-12th century. The Weet 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 Weet familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Weet 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 Weet History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Weet Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Wheat, Wheate, Whate, Weate, Weet, Wete and others. Early Notables of the Weet familyNotables 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, 2nd Baronet (1693-1746) was also a politician, Member of Parliament for Woodstock (1722-1727.) Upon his father's death in 1721, he inheriting Glympton Park, near Woodstock. His grandfather William Wheate, had bought the manor in 1633 from one of John Cupper's descendants.One of the two had the house remodelled with a Georgian elevation of...
Another 87 words (6 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Weet Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Weet familySome 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 Weet (post 1700) | + |
- Irving W. Weet, American Republican politician, Chair of Orleans County Republican Party, 1927 1
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