Kington Family History
- Kington Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the various places so called, in Dorset, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire. These are named from Old French cyne- ‘royal’ (replaced by Old English cyning ‘king’) + tun ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,753 Historical Documents with Kington on Ancestry
- 22,381 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,663 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,294 Military Records
- 1,111 Immigration Records
- 13,304 Member Trees
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Number of Kington families
 47 - 92  16 - 46 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kington families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kington census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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