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acknowledge the source of any information used from these pages. Origin / History of the Aldington Name Thought to be an English
locational surname originating from any of the villages called Allington in the
counties of Dorset, Kent, Wiltshire and Lincoln. The place name and hence the
later surname means "The dweller at the place of the Aella people", the latter
being a well known pre 7th century Olde English tribe, who were widely recorded.
Locational surnames are usually "from" names given to people after they left
their original homes for whatever reason, and moved somewhere else. Spelling
being at best erratic and local dialects very thick lead to the development of
alternative spellings - Aldington, Allington, and Ollington - often far removed
from the original source. In this case William de Allyngton is recorded in the
Hundred Rolls of Somerset in 1273, Medcalf Allington at the church of St James,
the Apostle in the city of London, on October 30th 1573, Martha Aldington who
married Henry Evatt at St James Clerkenwell, on February 10th 1726, whilst Mary
Ann Ollington, the daughter of William Ollington, was christened at Christ
Church, Spitalfields, also in the city of London, on March 22nd 1846. Coat of Arms / Crest The Coat of Arms is blue with ten gold estoiles, four, three, two, one. The Crest is a gold estoile emerging from a crescent. The Motto, Immotus, is translated as Immovable. Click on the Surname to go to the Family Sheet
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