Ditton Family History
Ditton Name Meaning
habitational name from any of the numerous places
named Ditton, for example in Cheshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and
Surrey, from Old English dic ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.habitational name from Ditton
Priors in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Dodintone
‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with a man called
Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’.
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Name Distribution of Ditton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ditton families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ditton Family Origin
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Ditton Family Occupations
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