Forton Family History
Forton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Hampshire,
Lancashire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire named Forton, from Old
English ford ‘ford’ + tun ‘settlement’, ‘enclosure’.French: variant of Fortin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Forton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Forton families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Forton Family Origin
Forton Emigration Information (US)
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Forton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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