Dorton Family History
Dorton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Buckinghamshire named
Dorton, from Old English dor ‘narrow pass’ + tun
‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dorton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dorton families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dorton families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dorton Family Origin
Dorton Emigration Information (US)
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Dorton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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