Brief Life History of Edith Marguerite
When Edith Marguerite Harrington was born on 14 June 1893, in Fulham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Woods Harrington, was 27 and her mother, Alice Edith Stillman, was 27. She married Philip Morton Shand on 22 April 1916, in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Acton, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Banstead, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1939. She died on 3 January 1981, in Fulham, Middlesex, England, at the age of 87.
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Family Time Line
Sources (10)
- Edith Marguerite Harrington in household of Henry Harrington, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Slee Or Sissons, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
- Edith Marguerite Tippet in entry for Herbert Charles Coningsby Tippet, "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957"
Spouse and Children
1888–1960 Male
1893–1981 Female
Children (1)
1917–2006 Male
Parents and Siblings
1865–1920 Male
1866–1935 Female
Siblings (3)
1891– Male
1893–1981 Female
1897– Male
World Events (8)
1894 · Tower Bridge Completed
Age 1
1908
Age 15
1918
Age 25
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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