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  Wintle Coat of Arms / Wintle Family CrestThe associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burke's General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. This ancient English surname of WINTLE was a habitation name from WINDHILL in West Yorkshire, or WINDLE in Lancashire. The name was derived from the Old English word WIND + HYLL, literally meaning the dweller at the mound exposed to fierce gusts of wind. Other spellings of the name include WINDEL, WINDLE and WINTELL. Surnames can be divided into four categories; place names, occupation names, nicknames and patronymics. PLACE NAMES are the largest group and covers all those names first applied to people who lived in or nearby to a particular place. For example, Grove, Wood, Field, Meadow, and Street are obvious. Occasionally names were taken from obscure villages or hamlets which no longer exist and this can make research confusing. OCCUPATION NAMES cover nearly all trades which existed in the Middle Ages. These are numerous. It does not necessarily follow that such names as King, Duke, Earl and so on mean your ancestors were of noble blood. It is much more likely that such named people worked for the person referred to. NICKNAMES. This is a smaller group but in many ways more interesting. They usually originated as a by-name for someone by describing their appearance, personal disposition or character but which became handed down through the ages and did not apply to their descendants. For instance the name Black would denote a dark man, Little, someone small (or even somewhat ambiguously) someone tall. PATRONYMICS. This group covers all names which derive immediately from the owner's father. Many christian names which are also surnames have, over the years, lost the possessive form but the origin is still the same. Examples of this could be names such as Peter,Thomas, Henry - all names which became both christian and surnames over the years. Early records of the name include Alan de WINDHULL, who was documented in Lancashire in the year 1201, and Walter del WYNDHEL appears in Suffolk in the year 1327. Richard atte WYNDHULL was recorded in Essex in the same year. |
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