from:
Gerald A. Wingrove, MBE
Notes on Possible Origins
of the Wingrove Surname
& Personal Family Tree
November 1998
John de Wengrave left Drayton (near Banbury on the Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire) at 4 am by horse, on the 29th March 1334 to take Court Papers to York. and returned on the 1st of July. John Wilemot alias John de Wengrave was a horse servant to William de Berkhampstede, a Sheriff’s clerk. (from ‘Rolls from The Office of Sheriff of Beds & Bucks 1332-1334.)
In consulting with C.R.Humphery-Smith, F.S.A. of “The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies” it was suggested that the name Wingrove, (Wengrove, Wingrave, Wengrave,) is a locative name, a name derived from a place, town or village. It was apparently the custom in times past that when a family became so numerous in a particular place, some members would take on the name of the place village or town to distinguish them from other members, in a similar way that today, we sometimes find “Sr” , “Jr” , “II” or “III” after a name when perhaps a father and son are given the same first name. We have no way of knowing (as yet) where John de Wengrave came from, but 30 mile south west of ‘Drayton’ is the village of ‘Wingrave’ in Buckinghamshire, and the earliest records that I have seen, show that the largest concentration of the Wingrove name is within a 30 mile radius of the village of ‘Wingrave’.
This may of course be a coincidence but I would like to think that it is
significant, and a worth while place and area from which to set out from and attempt to trace back too.
There is also no way of knowing (as yet) whether or not John Wilemot alias John de Wengrave has any connection what-so-ever with the Wingroves that inhabit this earth today. However we did all start somewhere, and he is the oldest reference that I have so far found, and is in the right area so I am happy at this stage to include him as my starting point.
From the above institution [The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies] I am informed that the name Wilemote is of Norman origin and in or before the 15th century used a coat of arms described as “a fess between three eagles heads with or without anything on the fess”.
There is also a coat of arms recorded for a Wingrove, formally of the Bengal Civil Service, who settled at Worth in Sussex, granted in 1852, of a “Phoenix in flames” with the motto “Fear God and Dread Nought”
From “The Military Survey of 1552, The Muster Certificate Book for
Buckinghamshire”, of men who could bare arms, we find the following Wingrove’s (or names that sound similar). The place name in Italics represents current spelling ; Bradnam, Bradenham. Thos. Wingraffe, Weste Wycombe, West Wycombe, Nic. Wingrave, Rob Wingrave, Hen. Wingrave. Radnage, Radnage, Thos. Wingrave. Villa de Marlowe Magne cum forens, Great Marlow, John Wingrave. Turfelde, Turville, Rob Wingrave.
Webmaster: Early documents name the present village of Wingrave Bucks, as Wengrave and Wingrove.
Unfortunately both of these documents seem now (from my own research) to be isolated examples. Perhaps those who are currently searching the archives could fill in some of the early spaces as well as add their own to an ever growing tree.
To-- Jeromiah Wingrave /
Audre. (Bradenham)
... William Wingrove 1637
Robert Wingrove 1640
To-- William Wingrove /
Lydia. (Bradenham)
... George Wingrove 1676
.. Ann Wingrove 1678
.. Richard Wingrove 1680
.. Robert Wingrove 1680
.. Mary Wingrove 1682.
To --George Wingrove (married 1702)
Mary Slater, (Bradenham)
... Robert Wingrove 1703
.. Ann Wingrove 1704
.. Mary Wingrove 1706
.. George Wingrove 1708
.. Richard Wingrove1710
.. John Wingrove 1711
.. William Wingrove 1714.
To -- John Wingrove, (married 1738)
Mercy ----.(Bradenham)
.. Frances Wingrove 1740
.. William Wingrove 1741
.. Frances Wingrove 1742
.. Mary Wingrove 1742
.. William Wingrove 1744
.. Mercy Wingrove 174
.. Elizabeth Wingrove 1748
.. Mary Wingrove 1750
.. Richard Wingrove 1755
.. John Wingrove 1758.
To-- William Wingrove (married 1774)
Elizabeth Newell (of Saunderton)..(Bradenham)
..John Wingrove 1775
.. William Wingrove 1777
.. Rubecca Wingrove 1778
.. George Wingrove 1783
.. Richard Carter Wingrove 1785
.. Elizabeth Wingrove 1787.
To-- George Wingrove (married 1806)
Elizabeth Reading.(Bradenham)
..William Wingrove 1807.
To-- William Wingrove (married 1832 )
Elizabeth Sproster ..(Bradenham),
. . . George Wingrove 1844
.. Richard Wingrove 1846
.. William Wingrove 1850.
To-- Richard Wingrove (married 1867)
Ann Bray born 1840 of Milton
( Moulton?) Northamptonshire)
.. Elizabeth Wingrove 1869 (Milton)
.. William George Wingrove 1871 (Bradenham)
.. Richard Wingrove 1873
.. Ernest Albert Wingrove 1877 (Wycombe)
.. Lily L. Wingrove 1880. (Wycombe)
To-- Ernest Albert Wingrove (married 1899)
Fanny Harris (1880 Wheeler End).
(Wycombe. High Wycombe.)
.. Ernest William Wingrove 1899
.. Albert Wingrove
Frank Wingrove
Edith Wingrove
May Wingrove
Cecil Wingrove
To-- Ernest William Wingrove (married 1923)
Ada Larner (b 1902 Stokenchurch)
. . . . Leon A Wingrove
. . . . Diana A Wingrove
. . . . Gerald A. Wingrove. MBE
To-- Gerald A. Wingrove (married) R. Olive Pym
. . . . Mark Wingrove
. . . Elaine Wingrove.
Gerald A. Wingrove & Phyllis Millar-Watt
. . . Alexandra (London)
To-- Mark Wingrove. (married ) to Susan Buist
.. Sarah Wingrove
.. Jonathan J Wingrove
See also Bradenham Wingroves: St. Botolph’s Church, Bradenham dates from about 1100 (late Saxon, EarlyNorman), with additions in 1230, 1340, 1400 and early 19th century.
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