The winstead Surname
winstead Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name, perhaps from Wanstead in Greater London
(formerly Esses), recorded in Domesday Book as Wenesteda ‘site
(Old English stede) by a mound (Old English wænn) or
where wagons (Old English w?n) are kept’, but more likely
from Winestead in East Yorkshire, named from Old English wif
‘wife’ or a female personal name Wifa + stede
‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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