Denton Family History
Denton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the numerous
places so called. The vast majority, including those in
Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, County Durham, Kent, Lancashire,
Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and West
Yorkshire, are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see
Dean 1) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. An isolated
example in Northamptonshire appears in Domesday Book as
Dodintone ‘settlement associated with Dodda’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Denton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Denton families
 988 - 1,973  330 - 987 |
 1 - 329  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Denton families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Denton Family Origin
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Denton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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