Watton Family History
Watton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place called Watton, as for
example one in Norfolk, named from the Old English personal name
Wada + tun ‘settlement’, or another, in East
Yorkshire, which takes its name from Old English w?t ‘wet’
+ dun ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Watton
Name Distribution of Watton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Watton families
 132 - 261  45 - 131 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Watton families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Watton census records
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Watton Family Origin
Watton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Watton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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