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SHILLINGFORD Family History

This is an English locational surname. It originates from any or all of the places called Shillingford, specifically in the counties of Devon, where there are two examples one near Exeter, and the other Bampton, or Oxfordshire where there is one. In all cases the place name seems to appear in Domesday Book, or if not, very shortly afterwards. Howver the surname is much later and possibly Elizabethan. Locational surnames are usually ones given either to the lord of the manor and his descendants or more usually to people who for whatever reason left their original homesteads to move somewhere else.