Dunton Family History
Dunton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Dunton. Most (for example those in Bedfordshire, Essex,
Leicestershire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire) are named from Old English
dun ‘hill’ (see Down 1) + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. One in Buckinghamshire probably has as its first element
the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dunton
Name Distribution of Dunton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dunton families
 76 - 149  26 - 75 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dunton families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dunton census records
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Dunton Family Origin
Dunton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dunton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dunton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dunton census records
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Military Service by Dunton
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