Pelton Family History
Pelton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Pelton, a place in County Durham,
named from an unattested Old English personal name Peola +
tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pelton
Name Distribution of Pelton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pelton families
 32 - 61  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pelton families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pelton Family Origin
Pelton Emigration Information (US)
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Pelton Family Occupations
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