Drayton Family History
Drayton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the very numerous places in
England named Drayton, from Old English dræg ‘drag’,
‘portage’, ‘slipway’, or ‘sledge’ (a place where boats were dragged
across land or where loads had to be dragged uphill or on sledges
across wet ground, from dragan ‘to draw or drag’) +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Drayton
Name Distribution of Drayton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Drayton families
 121 - 239  41 - 120 |
 1 - 40  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Drayton families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Drayton census records
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Drayton Family Origin
Drayton Emigration Information (US)
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Drayton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Drayton
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