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Goldington Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality, 'of Goldington,' a parish in Bedfordshire, two miles from Bedford.

Peter de Goldington, Buckinghamshire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

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Goldington Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality, 'of Goldington,' a parish in Bedfordshire, two miles from Bedford.

Peter de Goldington, Buckinghamshire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

Alvredus de Goldingtone, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Roger de Goldyngton, Bedfordshire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

William de Goldingtone, Kent, ibid.

1631. Married — Francys Gouldington and Ann Boyfield: St. James, Clerkenwell.

1675. — Thomas Goldington, of Harrow-the-Hill, and Margaret Toothacre: St. Michael, Cornhill.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) belonging to Goldington (Beds), 13th cent. Goldingtone = the Estate of the Gold(a Family [Anglo-Saxon *Goldinga-tún -inga, genit. pl. of the son suff. -ing; tún, estate, &c.]

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison
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