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Variants spelling: Eddington, Edlington, Erdington, Eddingtone and possibly Addington

1 - From the old barony of the same name in the parish of Chirnside, Berwickshire, Aldanus de Edington and his son Adam successively attested charters granted to the Priory of Coldingham by Waldeve and Patrick, earls of Dunbar, between 1166 and 1189, and Robert of Edington is also among the witnesses to a charter of 1193 (Raine; 136,115, 116,117, 140, etc.). Adam de Edintun also witnessed a charter by Earl Waldeve to the monks of Melrose of pasture on Lammermuir, c. 1166—1182 (Frasers of Philorth, I). John of Edynton in 1290 granted a charter in favor of the Abbey of Neubotle (Neubotle, p. 164), and Walter de Edynton, a Scots prisoner of war taken at Dunbar in 1296 and sent to Fotheringay Castle was still prisoner there in 1298 (Bain, II, p. 177,260). The seal of Ricarde de Edington is appended to a document regarding some rights of common c. 1450 (Seals Supp., 333), and the seal of Gilbert of Edington is appended to an inquisition held in the court of Sir Alexander, Lord Home, bailie of Coldingham, in 1453 (ibid., 332). Thomas de Edingtoun de eodem is mentioned in a retour of lands of Wedderburn in 1469 (Sc. Ant., VII, p. 25), and Robert of Edingtone is in record in 1478 (Home, 17). James Edington and others were summoned for holding the Casde of Dunbar against the king in 1479 (APS., II, p. 125). Richard of Edingtone and Robert of Edingtone witnessed an instrument of sasine in 1478, and Edward Edyngtone witnessed a similar in strument in 1496 (Home, 24, 28). Dik Ethingtouns son was summoned in 1479 to answer to Parliament for treason and other crimes (APS., II, p. 129), and David Edington of that Ilk was one of the Merse proprietors who, in 1567, signed a bond of adherence to James VI as king (Crawford, Officers of state, p. 443). Another David Edingtoune was a commander of troops in Sweden under the great Gustavus Adolphus, William Idingtoun was retoured heir in lands in the barony of Coldingham in 1634 (Retours, Berwick, 206), Anna Idintoune is recorded in Coldinghame, 1673 (Lauder), and Elspit Edentoune died in the Kirktoun of Strickmartin in 1679 (lervise, I, p. 204), The Edingtons of that Ilk sold their lands in 1594 to Sir George Ramsay of Dalhousie. Ethington 1578. Local pronunciation of the name is Ee-din-tun and Ee-thin-tun.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

2 - The name comes from when a family lived in Eddington or Edington, places found in Berkshire, Northumberland, Somerset and Wiltshire. The place-name is derived from the old English personal name Eadwynn or Eatha, and tun, a suffix denoting enclosure, farm, settlement, or town

3 - The Rectory of Edington belonged to the Abbey of Romsey, of which the Rector was a Resident Prebendary, and the parochial duties, with the services in the Church (the predecessor of the building under notice) were discharged by a Vicar. About the year 1300 William of Edington (whose surname is unknown) was born in ... The Edington Church

4 - The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1891 - ‎Natural history -
The Rectory of Edington belonged to the Abbey of Romsey, of which the Rector was a Resident Prebendary, and the parochial duties, with the services in the Church (the predecessor of the building under notice) were discharged by a Vicar. About the year 1300 William of Edington (whose surname is unknown) was born in ... Edington Church

5 - It is still a Berwickshire surname. In 1563 we read of one John Edington, "commonly called the Liar, as he was always the messenger of strange news, which was commonly false." He was surprised, along with other associates in a strange conspiracy for robbing David Hume of Wedderburn, of the tiends of Kelloe, and "hid ... The Estate of Edington

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