Hewton Family History
Hewton Name Meaning
probably a variant of Hooton Houghton or Hutton . Hutton Wandesley (WR Yorks) which derives from Old English hōh ‘heel spur of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ is recorded as Hewton in 1536 with this particular form representing dialectal fronting and diphthongization of Old English ō to [iu].
Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021