Shelton Family History
Shelton Name Meaning
English (mainly Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of
various places, for example in Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and Staffordshire, which are named from Old English
scylf ‘shelf’ + 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shelton
Name Distribution of Shelton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shelton families
 333 - 664  112 - 332 |
 1 - 111  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shelton families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shelton census records
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Shelton Family Origin
Shelton Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shelton Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Shelton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shelton census records
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Military Service by Shelton
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