Chillington Family History
Chillington Name Meaning
from Chillington (Staffs) which is recorded as Cillentone in 1086 Cildentona about 1129 and Chylinton in the 12th century. The place-name may derive from Old English cildena genitive plural of cild ‘child’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021