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Author: BrendaCox9134
Surnames: Carrington & Smith
Classification: biography
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The John Carrington who took the name of Smith was a Carrington of Carrington, Cheshire.
The present Lord Carrungon;s father pub.licly stated that his family has no relationship
to the Cheshire family. The present Lord is descended from Abel Smith a banker of
Nottingham
Saying that this Cheshire Carrington family may be ancestors of immigrants to America has
never been proved and is very misleading. Most books written about this family have got it
all wrong, including Waletr Copinger who wrote his huge book to please a Smith man who had
commissioned t!
Hamo de Carentan is the first one we know of, born abt 1048 in Carentan, Normandy,France,
he came to England in 1066 as esquire to his uncle Hamo de Mascie(later of Dunham Massey,
Cheshire) who gave him some of the lands he had been given after 1066 by the 1st Norman
Earl of Chester, those lands being in Bowden and becoming known as Carrington Manor.
A group of us have researched the Carrington family and have had our tree approved by The
College of Heralds.
Brenda Cox
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