Släkthistoria för Welham
Welham Vad efternamn betyder
from Welham in Leics named from Old English wella + hām ‘homestead by the stream’. The surname appears to have migrated to Norfolk and Suffolk by the 14th century although the variation between Welholme (1308) and Welham (1310) in the family name of the lords of Stratton Saint Michael (Norfolk) seems to imply a different source. No place called Welholme (where the second element is Old Scandinavian holmr ‘raised land in a marshy area’) has been identified and it may be an altered form of Welham through association with Holme Hill the original site of their manor house in Stratton. from Welham in Clarborough Notts named from Old English wellum ‘(at the) wells or springs’. Welham in ER Yorks which has the same etymology is not known to have given rise to a surname.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
