Shotton Family History
Shotton Name Meaning
English (mainly northeastern): habitational name from places so
called in County Durham and Northumberland. The former is named with
an unattested Old English sceot ‘steep slope’ + Old English
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, the latter with Old English
scota, genitive plural of scot ‘Scot’ + dun
‘hill’. The surname may also have been a topographic name for someone
who lived by an enclosure on a slope.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Shotton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shotton families
 203 - 404  68 - 202 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shotton families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shotton Family Origin
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Shotton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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