Dalton Family History
Dalton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and
Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see
Dale) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English
and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Autun
(d’Autun) in Seine-et-Loire, France. The place name derives
from the Latin form Augustodunum, a compound of the imperial
name Augustus + the Gaulish element dun ‘hill’,
‘fort’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dalton
Name Distribution of Dalton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dalton families
 724 - 1,446  242 - 723 |
 1 - 241  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dalton families
|
47 - 91 16 - 46 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dalton census records
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Dalton Family Origin
Dalton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dalton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dalton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dalton census records
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Military Service by Dalton
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