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SPALDING

Spalding

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Spalding

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Spalding

Spalding

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English and Scottish

Spalding

English and Scottish : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so called from the Old English tribal name Spaldingas â€˜people of the district called Spaldâ€™. The district name probably means â€˜ditchesâ€™, referring to drainage channels in the fenland.The surname was taken to Scotland in the 13th century by Radulphus de Spalding. His descendants prospered, and the name is still common in Scotland. Early American Spaldings include Thomas Spalding, born in Frederica, GA, in 1774, who introduced sea-island cotton in GA, and the physician Lyman Spalding, born in Cornish, NH, in 1775, who founded U.S. Pharmacopoeia.

Spalding

Billington

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English

Billington

English : habitational name from any of three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna â€˜sword-shaped hillâ€™ (see Bill); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone â€˜settlement (Old English tÅ«n) of Billaâ€™; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dÅ«n â€˜hillâ€™. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.John Billington (1580â€“1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him â€˜the profanestâ€™ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.

Billington