Winterbotham History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England

The Winterbotham surname is derived from the Middle English words "winter," and "bottom" denoting a valley where "shepherds for shelter in the winter." 1

The family may have originally been from Winterbottom, in Cheshire or in what we know as Greater Manchester, England: "The Winterbottoms are a time-honoured stock indigenous to Saddleworth." 2

"Like most of the surnames whose suffix is the local "bottom," Winterbottom arose in the south-east corner of Lancashire, on the Cheshire and Yorkshire borders." 3

Early Origins of the Winterbotham family

The surname Winterbotham was first found in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with references going back at least as far as 1299 (John of the Winterbottom, owner of the Marled Earth in Quick, now part of Saddleworth). 4

Early History of the Winterbotham family

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Winterbotham Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Winterbottom, Winterbottam, Winterbotham and others.

Early Notables of the Winterbotham family

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Winterbotham migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Winterbotham Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Ann Winterbotham, who settled in New York in 1820

Contemporary Notables of the name Winterbotham (post 1700) +

Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham (1837-1873), English politician, born at Stroud on 2 March 1837, the second son of Lindsey Winterbotham, banker in that town, grandson of William Winterbotham 5
William Winterbotham (1763-1829), English dissenting minister and political prisoner, born in Aldgate, London, sixth child of John Winterbotham, who had been a soldier in the Pretender's army 5

Citations +

Smith, Eldson Coles, New Dictionary of American Family Names New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Print
Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 5 Feb. 2019