The winterton Surname
winterton Name Meaning and History
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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