When Jay H. Kennington was born on 24 June 1951, in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, his father, Lester Gordon Kennington, was 31 and his mother, Mary Eleanore Miller, was 24. He died on 25 June 1951, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name for someone from a place called Kennington in Greater London (formerly in Surrey), Oxfordshire, Kent, or from Kennington Farm in Willoughton (Lincolnshire). The first two are from the Old English personal name Cēna + -ing- (a connective particle denoting association with) + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’. The place in Kent is named from Old English cyne- ‘royal’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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