Kennington Family History
Kennington Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from a place called
Kennington in Greater London (formerly in Surrey), Oxfordshire, or
Kent. The first two are from the Old English personal name
Cena + -ing- (a connective particle denoting
association with) + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The place
in Kent is named from Old English cyne- ‘royal’ +
tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kennington
Name Distribution of Kennington Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kennington families
 82 - 161  28 - 81 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kennington census records
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Kennington Family Origin
Kennington Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kennington Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kennington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kennington census records
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Military Service by Kennington
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