Alton Family History
- Alton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the many places called Alton, in Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and elsewhere. The origin is various: Alton in Derbyshire and Alton Grange in Leicestershire probably have as their first element Old English (e)ald ‘old’. Those in Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire are at the sources of rivers, and are named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) at the source (?wiell)’. Others derive from various Old English personal names; for example, the one in Staffordshire is formed with an unattested personal name, Ælfa, and one in Worcestershire, Eanulfintun in 1023, is ‘settlement associated with (-ing) Eanwulf’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 272,605 Historical Documents with Alton on Ancestry
- 75,672 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,322 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,773 Military Records
- 4,512 Immigration Records
- 128,326 Member Trees
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Number of Alton families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Alton families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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