When Fortinatus Harrington was born on 22 April 1764, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Issac Harrington, was 30 and his mother, Hannah Whipple, was 25. He married Anna Harrington on 24 March 1791, in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1840. He died on 29 January 1841, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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