When Leonard Harrington was born on 25 October 1780, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jonah Harrington, was 32 and his mother, Damaris Warren, was 30. He married Hannah Ladd on 3 June 1804. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States in 1860. He died about 1866, in Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, 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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