Belton Family History
Belton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Belton, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Suffolk. The
first element, bel, is of uncertain origin; the second is Old
English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Irish: the
name Weldon, relatively common in Ireland, has sometimes been
Gaelicized as de Bhéalatún and re-Anglicized as
Veldon and Belton.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Belton
Name Distribution of Belton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Belton families
 131 - 259  44 - 130 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Belton families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Belton census records
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Belton Family Origin
Belton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Belton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Belton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Belton
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