Bennington Family History
Bennington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called
Benington, in Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire, or from Long Bennington
in Lincolnshire. The first is recorded in Domesday Book as
Benintone ‘farmstead or settlement (Old English tun)
by the Beane river’; both Lincolnshire names are derived from the Old
English personal name Beonna + -ing-, a connective
particle denoting association, + tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bennington
Name Distribution of Bennington Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bennington families
 132 - 262  45 - 131 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bennington families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bennington Family Origin
Bennington Emigration Information (US)
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Bennington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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