Worton Family History
Worton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Worton. Most are named with Old English wyrt ‘plant’,
‘vegetable’ + tun ‘enclosure’, i.e. a kitchen garden, but in
some cases the first element may be Old English worð
‘enclosure’ (see Worth), and in the case of Nether and Over
Worton in Oxfordshire (Hortone in Domesday Book, Orton
in other early sources), it is Old English ora ‘bank’,
‘slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Worton
Name Distribution of Worton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Worton families
 126 - 249  43 - 125 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Worton families
|
18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Worton Family Origin
Worton Emigration Information (US)
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Worton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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