When Florilla Worthington was born before 1800, in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Stephen Worthington, was 41 and her mother, Lydia Rogers, was 40.
English (Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire): habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and Leicestershire named Worthington. The placenames probably derive from an Old English personal name Weorth + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: Nicholas Worthington emigrated from England to Old Saybrook, CT, c. 1650.
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