210 Global POYNTON Family Members

POYNTON Family History

This unusual surname found in the spellings of Pointon, Poynton, and the dialectals Painten, Pontin, Paynton, and Punton, has two possible origins. The first, and for the majority of nameholders, the most likely, is medieval English and locational from one of the places called Pointon or Poynton in Lincolnshire, Cheshire, and Shropshire. Dialectual differences in pronunciation and hence spelling, account for the great variety of English surnames. This is a good example of the genre. "Poynton" in Cheshire derives from the Old English pre 7th Century personal name "Pun(a)" plus "tun", a far of hamlet, whist "Poynton" in Shropshire translates as "Peofa's" tun.