Orton Family History
Orton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places
called Orton. All those in England share a second element from Old
English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the first element
in each case is more difficult to determine. Examples in
Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire are on the banks of rivers, so that
there it is probably Old English ofer ‘riverbank’; in other
cases it is impossible to decide between ofer ‘ridge’ and
ufera ‘upper’. Orton in Cumbria is probably formed with the Old
Norse byname Orri ‘black-cock’ (the male black grouse). Orton
near Fochabers, Scotland, is of uncertain etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Orton
Name Distribution of Orton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Orton families
 288 - 573  97 - 287 |
 1 - 96  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Orton families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Orton Family Origin
Orton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Orton Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Orton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Orton
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