covington Family History Facts 1920

covington Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from Covinton in Lanarkshire, first recorded in the late 12th century in the Latin form Villa Colbani, and twenty years later as Colbaynistun. By 1422 it had been collapsed to Cowantoun, and at the end of the 15th century it first appears in the form Covingtoun. It is nevertheless clearly named with the personal name Colban (see Coleman 1) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’; Colban was a follower of David, Prince of Cumbria, in about 1120.
English: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) named Covington, from an Old English personal name Cofa + Old English -ing- denoting association + tun ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Thread	Author	Replies
COVINGTON Porter E 1908-1966	t42Moore	0
MILLER Aimee COVINGTON 1930-1995	t42Moore	0
COVINGTON Tom Albert and Margaret CORNFORTH	t42Moore	0
Thomas Jefferson Covington of Kentucky	KeithMcDowell87	0
COVINGTON J A Jim 1873 1958	t42FiveMile	0
COVINGTON Katie May 1883 1918 wife of J A Covington	t42FiveMile	0
COVINGTON Katie May 1918 1919	t42FiveMile	0
Wonders of ancestors	Roy E. Covington	6
William Ray Covington-Iowa	Gloria Johnson	1
Wesley Covington of Richmond CO area NC/SC	TisLauren	1