hi heidi, well if you can get hold of the whittington brown book it has info on whittington's hundreds of years ago and it states the the first whittington recorded in that book came from normandy. my whittington's are from zepp as well. my line is the john w. whittington & sarah rebecca conner line. they are all buried in st james cemetery in zepp. i have alot of info on the whittington's from that area if you would like i will share what i have e-mail me direct [email protected]