Sherington History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Sherington family

The surname Sherington was first found in Wiltshire at Sherrington, a village and civil parish on the River Wylye in Wiltshire where remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, presumably from late in the 11th or early in the 12th century can still be found today.

By 1252, Sherrington had a parish church dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian in 1341. However the village dates back to 896 when it was listed as Scoranston, but later was spelt Scarenstone in the Domesday Book 1 and meant "stone or rock on a steep slope" from the Old English "scir + "wudu". 2

The Cherrington variant originates in Shropshire at Cherrington, a village in the civil parish of Tibberton and Cherrington which dates back to the Domesday Book where it was listed as Cerlintone and later in 1230 as Cherington. The place name literally means "estate associated with a man called Ceorra," having derived from the Old English personal name + -ing + tun 2

Early History of the Sherington family

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Sherington Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Sherrington, Sherington, Cherrington and others.

Early Notables of the Sherington family

Notables of this surname at this time include:

Sir William Sharington or Sherington (1495?-1553), was "Vice-Treasurer of the Mint at Bristol who came of an old Norfolk family, and was the eldest son of Thomas Sherington (d. 1527?) He entered the s...

Sherington migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Sherington Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Richard Sherington, who arrived in Maryland in 1667 3

Citations +

Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)