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"Spelling variations of this family name include: Whittall, Whittell, Whittle, Wittle, Whyttel, Whyttall, Whyttle, Wyttle, Wittall, Wittel, Wittell..." First found in Lancashire where they held a family seat before and after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Some of the Wittelsbach family moved to Ireland ... Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Joseph Wittell, who settled in Jamaica in 1684; John Wittall arrived in Philadelphia in 1809, Thomas Whittle settled in New England in 1638; Edward Whittle settled in Virginia in 1663." Source: http://www.houseofnames.com/wittelsbach-family-crest/