Last name: PILKINGTON
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PILKINGTON : This last name is indexed 85,314 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PILKINGTON : English (northwestern): habitational name from a place in Lancashire. The placename may derive from an Old English personal name Pīleca or Pīloc + patronymic -ing + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’. The surname is established in Ireland where its presence was first recorded in the early 15th century.
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