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Rimington Family Crest
Rimington Family Crest
Rimington

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Where did the English Rimington family come from? What is the English Rimington family crest and coat of arms? When did the Rimington family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Rimington family history?

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Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Rimington family name include Remington, Remmington, Rimington, Rimmington and others.

First found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Rimington research. Another 177 words(13 lines of text) covering the years 1086, 1372 and 1500 are included under the topic Early Rimington History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Rimington surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Rimington Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century


  • Wm Rimington, who landed in Virginia in 1714
  • Robt Rimington, who arrived in Virginia in 1719

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  • Dave Rimington (b. 1960), American football player
  • Sammy "Sammy" Rimington (b. 1942), English jazz musician
  • Claude Rimington (1903-1993), British biochemist who's 1968 paper suggested that King George III had inherited his abnormality that caused his bouts of insanity
  • Dame Stella Rimington DCB (b. 1935), Director General of MI5 from 1992–1996


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  7. Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
  8. Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
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  10. Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3).
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The Rimington Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Rimington Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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