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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
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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.

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