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As far as we know from records going back to the fourteenth century our family comes from Nottinghamshire. The family name is derived from the name of a location, in our case, from a lost place in Markham Clinton, alias Little or West Markham (Notts.). The place is called WHITELUM (Old English HWIT ‘white’+ LUM ‘pool’). An early relative was Richard de Whytelom of Milneton mentioned in 1301 the “Inquisitions post Mortem (West Markham”.