Witherington Family History
Witherington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Witherington Down or Witherington
Farm in Wiltshire, or Witherenden in Ticehurst, Sussex. The Wiltshire
places are named from an Old English wiðign ‘willow
copse’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’. Witherenden is from
the Old English personal name Wither + -ing- denoting
association with + denn ‘woodland pasture’. RW.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Witherington Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Witherington families
 42 - 82  15 - 41 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Witherington families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Witherington Family Origin
Witherington Emigration Information (US)
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Witherington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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