Ditton Family History
- Ditton Name Meaning
- habitational name from any of the numerous places named Ditton, for example in Cheshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and Surrey, from Old English dic ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. habitational name from Ditton Priors in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with a man called Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 47,385 Historical Documents with Ditton on Ancestry
- 14,982 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,898 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,488 Military Records
- 1,028 Immigration Records
- 18,989 Member Trees
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Number of Ditton families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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