Researching Earle Ovington
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 216 people with the Ovington surname? In that year Ovington was ranked number 3363 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Earle Ovington on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Earle Ovington and the Ovington Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 410 people with the Ovington surname in the UK? Ovington is now ranked number 3655 for popularity in the UK. |
Ovington Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Earle Ovington
Earle Ovington
Earle Lewis Ovington (December 20, 1879 – July 21, 1936) was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison. Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the United States in a Blériot XI on September 23, 1911. He carried a sack of mail from Nassau Boulevard aerodrome, Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York. He circled at 500 feet and tossed the bag over the side of the cockpit and the sack burst on impact, scattering letters and postcards. He delivered 640 letters and 1,280 postcards, including a letter to himself from the United States Post Office Department designating him as "Official Air Mail Pilot #1."
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Other names that sound a bit like Ovington
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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