yes both Winfield's and Wingfield's do interchange with each other I have both from Staffordshire, England. Do you have A marriage Certificate for your Sarah in North Carolina Robert Carroll P.S. my Winfield'd move to Ontario, Canada from England mariahmcky@hotmail.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dWBAEB/181 > >Message Board Post: > >I have been searching for a Sarah Wingfield who married a George Herndon in Orange Cty. N.C.   I would like proof that she was a Wingfield.  I have a will of George & Sarah Herndon, but her last name not given. I think she could have been a Winfield.  The following paragraph taken from the library on variation of names. > >Winfield (2305) English habitational name from any of various places now called Wingfield.  North and South Wingfield in Derbyshire are evidently named with old English Wynn "meadow"  'pasture' plus field 'pasture', open country.  A place of this name in Bedfordshire may have as it first name Wince (see Winch) one in Suffolk was probably either the "field of the people of Wiga a short form of any of various compound names formed with  'wig'  "war") or else dervies its name first element from old English 'weoh'-(pre Christian) temple.   >This doesn't make too much sense to me but it does imply that the name Winfield is now Wingfield.  I think you will find some of your ancestors under Wingfield.  Ann > > > >==== WINFIELD Mailing List ==== >To send a message to this list then send it to Winfield-L@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >New content added every business day. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp