Caton Family History
Caton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called
Caton, in Derbyshire and Lancashire. The former is probably named with
the Old English personal name or byname Cada (see Cade)
+ Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter is
from the Old Norse byname Káti (see Cates) +
tun.English and French: from a pet form of
Catlin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Caton
Name Distribution of Caton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Caton families
 270 - 537  91 - 269 |
 1 - 90  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Caton families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Caton census records
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Caton Family Origin
Caton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Caton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Caton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Caton census records
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Military Service by Caton
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