Winham Family History
- Winham Name Meaning
- English: perhaps a variant of Wingham, a habitational name from Wingham, a place in Kent named from an unattested Old English personal name Wiga or Old English wig ‘heathen temple’ + -inga- ‘of the family or followers of’ + ham ‘homestead’, i.e. ‘homestead of Wiga’s people’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,808 Historical Documents with Winham on Ancestry
- 5,298 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,641 Census and Voter Lists
- 527 Military Records
- 414 Immigration Records
- 5,928 Member Trees
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Number of Winham families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Winham census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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