Winterton Family History
Winterton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places, in
Lincolnshire and Norfolk, named Winterton. The first is named in Old
English as ‘farmstead (Old English tun) of the family or
followers (-inga-) of a man called Winter’, while
Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk is from Old English winter ‘winter’
+ tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, referring perhaps to a
place inhabited only in winter.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Winterton
Name Distribution of Winterton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Winterton families
 77 - 152  26 - 76 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Winterton families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Winterton Family Origin
Winterton Emigration Information (US)
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Winterton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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