Murton Family History
Murton Name Meaning
Northern English: habitational name from any of various places, in
Cumbria, County Durham, North Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all named in
Old English as ‘settlement or enclosure at the marsh or moor’, from
mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Murton
Name Distribution of Murton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Murton families
 75 - 148  26 - 74 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Murton census records
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Murton Family Origin
Murton Emigration Information (US)
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Murton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Murton
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