Message: "etherington.....mystery name"

etherington.....mystery name

by elf

11/11/2007, 8:54 PM

i have been trying to find the orgin and/or meaning of the surname Etherington. i think it is a welsh name but i am not sure. it is a veriant of Hetherington, if that helps. i would love to know if anyone knows of how i can obtain any information on this or if anyone is an etherington themselves, seeing as this name isnt very common. can anyone help?

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- Jim Young (guest) +1

11/12/2007, 5:14 AM

You're right about it being a version of Hetherington, but it's not Welsh. Hetherington is a Cumbrian place name and surname, Etherington is, in my opinion, a Yorkshire version. The E- version appears in York in 1524. There was a Yorkshire landed family, the Etheringtons of Ebberston near Pickering, and another landed family, the Etheringtons of Driffield in East Yorkshire, which was a branch of Ebberston. You may be able to find them in genealogical works such as Burke's "Landed Gentry", or in histories of the areas mentioned.

- moonfaced

12/5/2007, 5:31 PM

I was searching the internet for the meaning, here's a website
information about the surname. http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=etherington

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