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![Show Contents]() Tarrington History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England
Early Origins of the Tarrington familyThe surname Tarrington was first found in Devon where they held a family seat from very ancient times where there are no fewer than three towns and villages by that name: Black Torrington, Great Torrington and Little Torrington. The place names were collectively listed as Tori(n)tona 1 in the Domesday Book of 1086 but by 1219 the village was known as Blaketorrintun which later evolved into Black Torrington. Great Torrington has historically been the largest and most historical of the parishes. "The name of this place is derived from its situation on the river Torridge; and its antiquity as a market-town is evident from various old records, in which it occurs under the appellation of Cheping-Toriton. At a very early period it gave the title of Baron to its lords, who had the power of life and death throughout the lordship." 2 Great Torrington was the site of the Battle of Torrington on February 16, 1646 between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. HMS Torrington was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1676. The surname is conjecturally descended from Roger who held lands from the Norman Baron Ralph of Pomeroy. Thorington is a village and a civil parish in the hundred of Blything, in Suffolk. And it is here in Devon, that we find the first records of the family, specifically, William de Torinton, who appeared in the Pipe Rolls of 1218. 3 The Thorington variant hails from either Suffolk or Essex where parishes can be found. 4 5 Torentuna was the name of the Suffolk parish in the Domesday Book of 1086 1 and it literally meant "thorn-tree enclosure or farmstead," from the Old English "thorn" or "thyrne" + "tun. 6 The Essex village is now known by the name Thorrington, but in Domesday times, it was known as Torinduna 1 and later in 1202 as Torritona. 6 A search through early rolls discovered Roger de Thorington, Cambridgeshire in the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 and in the Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I, we found William de Thorinton, Devon, Henry III-Edward I. The same rolls revealed Robert de Thorinton, Lancashire. 7 Early History of the Tarrington familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tarrington research. Another 52 words (4 lines of text) covering the year 1645 is included under the topic Early Tarrington History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Tarrington Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Torrington, Torrinton, Torring and others. Early Notables of the Tarrington familyMore information is included under the topic Early Tarrington Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
 Tarrington migration to New Zealand | + |
Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include: Tarrington Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century- Mr. Patrick Tarrington, (b. 1865), aged 18, Scottish settler travelling from Greenock aboard the ship "Trevelyan" arriving in Invercargill, Southland, South Island, New Zealand on 30th December 1883 8
| Contemporary Notables of the name Tarrington (post 1700) | + |
- R. C. Tarrington, American Republican politician, Candidate for Missouri State House of Representatives from Cass County, 1954 9
- Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
- Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
- Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
- Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
- Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
- Testa de Nevill or "Liber Feodorum" or "Book of Fees," thought to have been written by Ralph de Nevill, for King John (1199–1216)
- New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 27) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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Tarrington migration to New Zealand 
