Families of Lincolnshire
Witham and Welland, the Fens' edge, Boston of the Pilgrim Fathers, and the wide flat agricultural surnames of the eastern shore.
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Families seated in Lincolnshire
- WardThe watchman.
- ThatcherThe roof thatcher's craft, straw and laths long before politics borrowed the name.
- NewtonThe new farm, half of England is a Newton.
- ColemanColumban saint-name or Nicholas' man.
- SpencerThe steward, from pantry to peerage.
- PalmerThe palm-bearer, pilgrimage turned patronymic.
- HaynesHainaut or hedged field, context splits.
- HudsonSon of Hudd, the Yorkshire patronymic carried into Hudson Bay.
Historic ties to Lincolnshire
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Lincolnshire.
- Guy GibsonThe Lancaster pilot who led 617 Squadron over the Möhne and Eder dams in May 1943 and won the Victoria Cross at twenty-four.
- Isaac NewtonThe Lincolnshire farmer's son whose plague-year notebooks at Woolsthorpe became the calculus, the theory of colour and the law of universal gravitation, and whose Principia of 1687 set the frame of modern science.
- Margaret ThatcherThe Grantham grocer's daughter who in May 1979 became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, served three full terms, recovered the Falkland Islands by force of arms in 1982, and stood with Ronald Reagan as one of the two western political leaders who shaped the end of the Cold War.