When Theodore Spencer Harrington was born on 5 May 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Leonard Ellsworth Harrington, was 28 and his mother, Lois Russell, was 21. He married Martha Elizabeth Chipman on 12 September 1863, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Lewis, Washington, United States in 1880. He died on 17 October 1922, in Winlock, Lewis, Washington, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Winlock Cemetery, Winlock, Lewis, Washington, 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.
Possible Related NamesThe Life Summary of Theodore Spencer Harrington When Theodore Spencer Harrington was born on 5 May 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Leonard Ellsworth Harrington, was 28 …
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