Dewitt Family History
Dewitt Name Meaning
variant pronunciation of Devitt a name well evidenced in Nether Whitacre and Nuneaton (Warwicks) and in Bedford (Beds). occasionally an anglicization of De Witt ‘the white(-haired) fair or pale-skinned one’ from Middle Dutch witte + the definite article de. The 1820 bearer below might be related to one or more of Ann
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016