Laxton Family History
Laxton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places called Laxton, in East
Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Northamptonshire. The Northamptonshire
place name is formed from an Old English personal name Leaxa +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other examples were named
with Leaxa + -ing- (denoting association with) +
tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Laxton
Name Distribution of Laxton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Laxton families
 88 - 174  30 - 87 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Laxton families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Laxton Family Origin
Laxton Emigration Information (US)
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Laxton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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