Allerton Family History
Allerton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places so
called. Allerton on Merseyside, Chapel Allerton in West Yorkshire, and
others in West Yorkshire were named in Old English as alra
tun ‘settlement by the alders’. One in Somerset
(Alwarditone in Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfweard’s settlement’;
one in West Yorkshire (Allerton Mauleverer, Alvertone in
Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfhere’s settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Allerton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Allerton families
 119 - 236  40 - 118 |
 1 - 39  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Allerton families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Allerton Family Origin
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Allerton Family Occupations
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