Morton Family History
Morton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many
places called Mor(e)ton, named in Old English as ‘settlement
(tun) by or on a marsh or moor (mor)’.Swedish: variant of Martin.French: contracted
form of Moreton 2.Americanized form of one or more
like-sounding Jewish surnames or of various other non-English names
bearing some kind of similarity to it.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Morton
Name Distribution of Morton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Morton families
 1,547 - 3,092  516 - 1,546 |
 1 - 515  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Morton families
|
802 - 1,601 268 - 801 |
1 - 267 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Morton census records
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Morton Family Origin
Morton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Morton Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Morton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Morton census records
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Military Service by Morton
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