Hetherington Name Study

Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Hetherington Heatherington Etherington

How to Participate

Please contact the Study's coordinator Andrew Micklethwaite or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about our surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

My own Hetherington branch lived in Ossett, West Riding of Yorkshire in the first half of the 1800s - other branches are in Ireland, America and Cumbria.

This Name Study was set up on behalf of the Hetherington Clan Facebook Group where we post items which may be of interest to other members. Please do join us there.

Additional Names

HETHERTON & HITHERTON

To add your relatives to the study, add

[[Category:Hetherington Name Study]]

[[Category:Lancashire, Hetherington Name Study]]

[[Category:County Antrim, Hetherington Name Study]]

{{One Name Study|name=Hetherington}}

to their profile biography - use one of the following location categories: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Cumberland, County Durham, Cheshire County Antrim, Counry Derry, County Donegal, County Fermanagh, County Leitrim, County Tyrone Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire. If your location doesn't match these, please contact either myself or Paul Hetherington

To add your contact details to this study page or to be added to the study's trusted list, contact me Andrew Micklethwaite

Surname Origins

Ancestry says of the name: English (northern border counties): habitational name from a place so named in Northumberland, possibly from Old English heahdeor ‘stag’, ‘deer’ or h?ddre ‘heather’ + -ing ‘characterized by’ + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.

Introductory Text

Welcome XXXXX

Why don't you join our Hetherington One Name Study or our facebook group?

The Name Study was set up on behalf of the Hetherington Clan Facebook Group where we post items which may be of interest to other members. Please do join us there.

To add your relatives to the study, add

[[Category:Hetherington Name Study]]

[[Category:Lancashire, Hetherington Name Study]] Substitute the appropriate county.

{{One Name Study|name=Hetherington}}

to their profile biography

Best Wishes, Andy Micklethwaite

Famous Hetheringtons

Wikipedia lists the following:

• Alastair Hetherington (1919–1999), British journalist
• Sir Arthur Hetherington (1911–2002), first chairman of British Gas
• Brian Hetherington, Australian rugby league footballer
• Chris Hetherington, American football fullback
• Sir Hector Hetherington (1888–1965), philosopher and Principal of the University of Glasgow
• Henry Hetherington (1792–1849), British Chartist
• Ian Hetherington, computer specialist
• Jason Hetherington, Australian rugby league footballer
• Jill Hetherington, professional tennis player from Canada
• John Hetherington, haberdasher
• Judson Hetherington (1866–1928), physician and politician
• Kathleen Hetherington, American college administrator
• Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer
• Rachel Hetherington, Australian professional golfer
• Richard Hetherington (1737-1821) British naval officer and politician https://wikitree.com/wiki/Hetherington-857
• Roger Hetherington (1908–1990), British civil engineer
• Roger Gaskell Hetherington (1876–1952), British civil engineer and civil servant
• Thomas Hetherington, (1926-2007), British lawyer
• Thomas Hetherington (politician) (1815-1913), Canadian politician
• Thomas Gerard Hetherington, (1886-1951), British officer who helped develop the tank
• Tim Hetherington (1970–2011), British photographer, winner of 2007 World Press Photo
• Rev William Maxwell Hetherington FRSE (1803-1865), Scottish minister and historian

DNA

There is a YDNA project at FTDNA: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/etherington