Wynters Family Crest & Name History

Spellings drift, and Wynters is where Winters drifted for some families. The family name meaning is “Of winter / son of Winter”, the same as for Winters. Spelled with “y” instead of “i”, Wynters shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

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