When Samuel Billington was born about 1702, in Wybunbury, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Billington, was 34 and his mother, Mrs. Billington, was 29. He married Mary Street on 15 November 1729, in Wybunbury, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Tarporley, Cheshire, England in 1703.
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English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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