Hetherington Family History
Hetherington Name Meaning
English (northern border counties): habitational name from a place
so named in Northumberland, possibly from Old English
heahdeor ‘stag’, ‘deer’ or h?ddre ‘heather’ +
-ing ‘characterized by’ + tun ‘farmstead’,
‘settlement’. This surname has been established in Ireland since the
16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hetherington Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hetherington families
 558 - 1,113  187 - 557 |
 1 - 186  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hetherington families
|
71 - 139 24 - 70 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hetherington Family Origin
Hetherington Emigration Information (US)
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Hetherington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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