Feetham Family History
Feetham Name Meaning
variant of Fleetham . perhaps from Feetham in Grinton (NR Yorks) which is recorded as Fyton in 1274 and Fethom in 1645. The place-name means ‘(place) at the meadows’ from Old Scandinavian fitjum the dative plural of fit ‘meadow grassland on the bank of a river’. The post-medieval bearers cited here may alternatively belong with (1).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016