Erika Whiteway, San Francisco area
Erika writes, August 1996...
I've done some genealogy work on the Whiteways, and my family
does indeed
originate in Devon, where I hope to go this fall (a big
maybe). My father had the
family crest, which burned in the big Oakland / Berkeley fire
of 1990 along with
other bits of family history. And I have two books: one was
published during
Victoria's reign, _The Silver Jubilee_ and lists a Canadian
branch, Sir William
and Lady Whiteway (pictured), who apparently helped settle
Newfoundland and
build the trans-Canadian railway; the other is a listing of
"all Whiteways",
another edition of which is due out soon, and I have a card
to order my very
own copy (if I can find it...).
My parents got a bottle of _Whiteway's Cydrax_ in Vancouver
about 20 yrs.
ago (also lost to the fire), but I understand the Devon
Whiteways are brewers
of hard cider, also known as cydrax, which no one I know in
England has been
able to locate for me. I also know that our name is linked to
the white cliffs
at Devon--the *white way* as the path was apparently called.
My research, which
was hasty and minimal but done at the Oakland Mormon temple
where people from
everywhere go to do their genealogical digging, yielded only
one reference to
Canada in 17??. There were Whiteways in Chicago that should
have appeared
in the Cook County (Illinois) register but I could find none.
I think there were
two branches of us: one that went to Canada and the other to
America, although
the American branch could have come down from Canada.
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