Worthing Family History
Worthing Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called
Worthing, in Sussex and Norfolk. The Norfolk place name is probably
from Old English worðign ‘the enclosure’, while the Sussex
one is derived from an unattested Old English personal name,
Weorð, (from Old English weorð ‘worthy’) +
-ingas ‘people of’. 1881 British census has 238, Radnor and
Herefor; presentday still predominantly west.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Worthing
Name Distribution of Worthing Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Worthing families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Worthing Family Origin
Worthing Emigration Information (US)
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Worthing Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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