..................................FROM THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF FLORIDA....................................
The English family name Shillington is considered by scholars to be of toponymic origin. Such a term is used to describe those family names that derive their origin from the name of the farm, village, town, city or region from whence hailed the original bearer of the name (as a surname). In this particular instance, the surname Shillington refers to one who hailed from a place so named, which is located in Bedfordshire. The etymology of the place name lies in the Old English personal name Scyttel, combined with the genitive ending "inga" and the locative suffix "dun", meaning "hill". Variants of the surname Shillington include Sillington, and shellington.
One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant is a record of one Thomas Shillington, son of Hugh Shillington, was christened in the church of St. Andrew, Plymouth, Devonshire, on May 23rd, 1622. Sarah Shillington, daughter of Thomas and Anne Shillington, was christened in a church in Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, on March 24th, 1796. Research is of course on going and this name may have been documented even earlier than the dates indicated above. Additional references include a record of the Edward Shillington married Mary Edgerton in the church of St. Nicholas, Deptford, London, on August 25th, 1822. Elizabeth Shillington married Oliver MacAusland in Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, on March 25th, 1835. Notable bearers of the surname Shillington include the physician and surgeon Adam Tozeland Shillington, born in 1870, the librarian Edward F. Shillington, documented in New Zealand in 1880, the barrister, civic official and handbook writer Charles Edward Shillington, born in 1881 and the Australians Sydney James Shillington (1874-1931), public servant, magistrate and politician and John Eversley Shillington, born in 1908 who was Commissioner of Titles. The arms described below were granted to a family surnamed Shillington, who resided in Yorkshire.
BLAZON OF ARMS: Or, on a fess gules, three
lions rampant of the field.
CREST: A lion of the arms.
ORIGIN: ENGLAND
