Whitmore History Name

WHITMORE, WHITTEMORE, WET-MORE
The original family name was de Boterel or Botrel; the first English record is Peter de Boterel, living in Staffordshire in 12th century. The family soon after this took the name of the locality in which they resided, became known as Whitemere, signifying white mere or lake.  This spelling was altered and modified until the present form of the name.  Sir John de Whytemere was knighted on a battlefield in 1230 for valorous conduct and received a tract of land entitled Whytemere or white meadows.  The English ancestry is traced to De Boteral of Staffordshire, Eng., in 1100.  His grandson, Ralph, married Avsia de Whitmore, and his grandson John became Sir John de Whitmore.
Francis, son of Nicholas W., XVIIIth generation from De Boteral, b. Hitchen, Hertfordshire, Eng., 1625, resident Boston, Mass., 1630-41, removed Cambridge, Mass., 1648, died 1685.
JOHN, appears at Wethersfield, Conn., 1638, removed Stamford, Conn., 1641, murdered by Indians 1648.
THOMAS, b.  Hitchen,  Hertfordshire, Eng., 1594, settled Charlestown, Mass., 1639.
THOMAS, b. Eng., 1615, came to N. E., 1635, settled Wethersfield, Conn., 1639-40, one of first settlers Middletown, Conn., 1649.