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witherington Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Witherington Down or Witherington Farm in Wiltshire, or Witherenden in Ticehurst, Sussex. The Wiltshire places are named from an Old English wiðign ‘willow copse’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’. Witherenden is from the Old English personal name Wither + -ing- denoting association with + denn ‘woodland pasture’.

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Distribution of witherington Families in the US in 1920
Number of witherington families
 11-19
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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