Taunton Family History
Taunton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Taunton in Somerset, Taunton Farm
in Coulsdon, Surrey, or Tanton in North Yorkshire. The Somerset place
name was originally a combination of a Celtic river name (now the
Tone, possibly meaning ‘roaring stream’) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The Surrey name is possibly from Old
English tan ‘branch’, ‘stalk’ + tun, while Tanton
was named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) on the Tame’,
another Celtic river name.
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Name Distribution of Taunton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Taunton families
 33 - 63  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Taunton families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Taunton Family Origin
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Taunton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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