Barrington Family History
Barrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Barrington. The one in Gloucestershire is named with the Old English
personal name Beorn + -ing- denoting association +
tun ‘settlement’. In the Somerset place name the first
element is an unattested Old English personal name Bara,
which also occurs, in the genitive form, as the first element of the
Cambridgeshire place name.Irish: adopted as an English
form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin (see Barnes 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barrington
Name Distribution of Barrington Families
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England & Wales
Number of Barrington families
 122 - 241  41 - 121 |
 1 - 40  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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Barrington Family Origin
Barrington Immigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Barrington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Barrington
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