Carrington Family History
Carrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester
(formerly in Cheshire) called Carrington, probably named with an
unattested Old English personal name Cara + -ing-
denoting association + tun ‘settlement’.Scottish: habitational name from a place in Midlothian named
Carrington, probably from Old English Ceriheringa-tun
‘settlement of Cerihere’s people’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carrington
Name Distribution of Carrington Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carrington families
 235 - 468  79 - 234 |
 1 - 78  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carrington families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Carrington Family Origin
Carrington Emigration Information (US)
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Carrington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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