When William Harmon Harrington was born on 5 August 1782, in Chatham, North Carolina, United States, his father, Philemon Harrington, was 25 and his mother, Frances Harmon, was 23. He married Nancy Ann Marks on 5 December 1804, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 12 March 1862, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Harrington Cemetery, Centerville, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.
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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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