Ancestors of Roger George BLINKO
Fourteenth Generation
9728. PIDDINGTON was born about 1555 in Cuddington, Bucks.
Surname:
Piddington
This uncommon name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational
surname deriving from either of the places called Piddington, in
Northamptonshire, near the town of Northampton, and in Oxfordshire,
near Bicester. The place in Northamptonshire is recorded in the
Domesday Book of 1086 as "Pidentone", and as "Pedinton" in the 1167
Pipe Rolls of the county, while Piddington in Oxfordshire appears as
"Petintone" in Domesday, and as "Pidinton" in the Oxfordshire Pipe
Rolls of 1187. Both place names share the same meaning and derivation,
which is "the settlement of Piuda or Pydda's people", from the Olde
English pre 7th Century personal name "Piuda, Pydda", thought to be
developed from a byname, "Pudoc", from "pudoc", wart, wen, with the
suffix "-ing(as)", people, tribe of, and "tun", enclosure, settlement.
Locational surnames were acquired by the lord of the manor, and local
landowners, and were used particularly as a means of identification by
those who left their birthplace to settle elsewhere. Among the recordings of the name in Church
Registers are the christening of John, son of Phillip Piddington, at
St. Mary's, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on February 10th 1587,
and the marriage of Henrie Piddington and Ursula Pichard on May 16th
1611, at St. Giles', Oxford. One Christopher Piddington emigrated to
the Virginia Colony in America in May 1635, on board the "Speedwell" of
London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be
that of Walter de Pidington, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred
Rolls of Oxfordshire", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The
Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when
governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as
Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have
continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the
original spelling.