Sefton Family History
Sefton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so called
from Old Norse sef ‘rush’ + Old English 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sefton
Name Distribution of Sefton Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sefton families
 298 - 594  100 - 297 |
 1 - 99  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sefton families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sefton census records
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Sefton Family Origin
Sefton Emigration Information (US)
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Sefton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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