Lawton Family History
Lawton Name Meaning
habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire,
from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in
Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’,
or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlaw ‘hill’, ‘burial
mound’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.variant
spelling of Laughton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lawton
Name Distribution of Lawton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lawton families
 1,133 - 2,264  378 - 1,132 |
 1 - 377  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lawton families
|
15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lawton census records
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Lawton Family Origin
Lawton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lawton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lawton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lawton census records
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Military Service by Lawton
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