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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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 wīðign ‘willow copse’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. Witherenden is from the Old English personal name Wither + -ing- denoting association with + denn ‘woodland pasture’.

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