Rowton Family History
Rowton Name Meaning
English:: habitational name from one or more of several places called with Old English rūh ‘rough’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. These include Rowton near Shrewsbury (Shropshire) Roughton in Worfield (Shropshire) Rowton (Cheshire) and The Roughter in Icklesham (next to Guestling Sussex). Compare Roughton . occasionally a habitational name from Wroughton (Wiltshire) from the river Worf (the old name for the river Ray probably from the British root uerb ‘wind turn’) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’. habitational name from Rowton near Ercall Magna (Shropshire) from Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’ with an uncertain first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022