Roughton Family History
Roughton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named
Roughton or Wroughton. Roughton, Lincolnshire, the most likely source
of the surname according to its present-day distribution, and
Roughton, Norfolk, are both named from Old English ruh
‘rough’ or Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + tun ‘farm’,
‘settlement’. Roughton, Shropshire is named with Old English
ruh + tun, and Wroughton, Wiltshire (the least
likely source of the surname) from Worf, a Celtic river name
meaning ‘winding stream’, + Old English tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Roughton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roughton families
 63 - 124  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roughton families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Roughton Family Origin
Roughton Emigration Information (US)
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Roughton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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