Ellington History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Ellington is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Ellington family when they migrated to the region after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Ellington family lived in Lincolnshire, at the Manor of Elkington, near Louth.

Early Origins of the Ellington family

The surname Ellington was first found in Lincolnshire at either North Elkington or South Elkington, parishes in the union of Louth, Wold division of the hundred of Louth-Eske. Both parishes were originally one and were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Alchinton. 1 Hence the name is conjecturally descended from William de Percy who held his lands from Ivo Tailbois, a tenant in chief. At that time the village of Elkington (Alchinton) consisted of one church, one chapel, a mill and a mill site. Elkington is also a deserted medieval village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire. Listed in 1377 as having 30 households, by 1412 there was none.