Winterton Family History
Winterton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lincolnshire and Norfolk named Winterton. The first was named in Old English as ‘farmstead (Old English tūn) of the family or followers (-inga-) of a man called Winter’. Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk is from Old English winter ‘winter’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’ perhaps denoting a place inhabited only in winter.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022