Billington Family History
- Billington Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tun) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dun ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 455,225 Historical Documents with Billington on Ancestry
- 138,499 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 84,066 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,278 Military Records
- 8,605 Immigration Records
- 215,777 Member Trees
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Number of Billington families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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