Burton Family History
- Burton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place name that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,818,757 Historical Documents with Burton on Ancestry
- 1,696,345 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,017,048 Census and Voter Lists
- 153,124 Military Records
- 80,714 Immigration Records
- 1,871,526 Member Trees
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Number of Burton families
 1,846 - 3,689  616 - 1,845 |
 1 - 615  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burton families
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100 - 198 34 - 99 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Burton census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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