Ellington Family History
- Ellington Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Northumbria, and North Yorkshire; most are so named from Old English Ellingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Ella’, a short form of the various compound names with a first element ælf ‘elf’, but the one in Kent has its first element from the Old English byname Ealda meaning ‘old’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 404,333 Historical Documents with Ellington on Ancestry
- 90,695 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 43,279 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,577 Military Records
- 2,445 Immigration Records
- 256,337 Member Trees
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Number of Ellington families
 43 - 84  15 - 42 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ellington families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ellington census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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