Surname: Wingham
 Recorded in several spellings including Wineham, Wingham, Winham, and possibly  others, this is an English surname. It is locational from Wingham, near  Canterbury, in the county of Kent. The placename is recorded as "Uuigincggaham"  in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of 834 a.d., and as "Wuungham" in the same  charters a century later in 946. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the place  appears as "Wingheham", and subsequently it has been Winham and Wineham. The  name means "the settlement of Wiga's people", derived from the Olde English pre  7th Century personal name "Wiga", a short form of the various compound names  with a first element "wig", war, with the suffix "-ing(as)", tribe, people of,  and "ham", enclosure, settlement. Locational surnames were acquired by local  landowners and the lord of the manor, and especially by those former  inhabitants of a place who had moved to another area, and were thereafter best  identified by the name of their birthplace. London Church Registers record the  marriage of Arthure Wingham and Katherine Bulbeck at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, on  May 8th 1587, and the christening of their daughter, Ann, on August 24th 1595  at the same church. A Coat of Arms granted to Henry de Wingham, Bishop of  London, 1259 - 1262, depicts a red human heart between two gold wings,  displayed. The Crest is a sword and feather in saltire proper. The first  recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Henry de Wyngeham,  which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Kent", during the reign of King  Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Throughout the  centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading  to astonishing variants of the original spelling. 
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