Wingate Family History
Wingate Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: habitational name from any of
various place so called, for example Wingate in County Durham or
Wingates in Northumberland, named in Old English as wind-geat
‘wind gate’, i.e. a place where the wind howls through a narrow pass
or gap.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wingate
Name Distribution of Wingate Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wingate families
 90 - 177  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wingate families
|
80 - 158 27 - 79 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wingate census records
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Wingate Family Origin
Wingate Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wingate Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Wingate
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