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ELTRINGHAM Family History

This most interesting and unusual surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from a village in Northumberland, so called from the Olde English pre 7th Century "Aelfheringaham", composed of the Olde English personal name "Aelfhere", with the suffix "-ing", people of, and "-ham", homestead; hence "the homestead of the people of Aelfere". The placename was recorded as "Heldringeham", circa 1200 in the "Placenames of Northumberland" and as "Eltrincham" in the Feet of Fines of 1242. The "t" was inserted for the sake of euphony after the name had been collapsed in pronunciation.