Stockton Family History
Stockton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places, for example in
Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire,
Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire,
so called from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’ or stoc
‘dependent settlement’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. It
is not possible to distinguish between the two first elements on the
basis of early forms.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
467,196
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Stockton
Name Distribution of Stockton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stockton families
 289 - 576  97 - 288 |
 1 - 96  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stockton families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Stockton census records
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Stockton Family Origin
Stockton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Stockton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Stockton census records
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Military Service by Stockton
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