English: unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or
unidentified place. It has been suggested that it might be an altered
form of Scottish Ballantine, but the distribution and variants
(including Blanding) make it more probable that it is an
altered form of a French original. pwh; Web.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
460,787
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Blanton
Click on a place to view Blanton immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Blanton families were living before
they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival, and destination.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Blanton emigration records
You can find out when most of the Blanton families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
Did the Blantons fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.