Whereabouts in Devon do WINDEATTs come from?
Authorities usually allocate the WINDEATT surname to the ‘locative’ category, i.e. a name deriving from a place where the family once lived (7), (8). And surname distribution studies indicate that, even today, the point of origin of locative surnames can be identified by the clustering of the name not too far from the original location (9) (10) Certainly an examination of present day phone number distributions show that most WINDEATTs still cluster in Devon mostly around Torquay (11).
