Helton Family History
- Helton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Helton in Cumbria, named in Old English probably with helde ‘slope’ + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, or possibly a variant of Hilton. This is a common name in TN, KY, OH, TX, and GA.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 571,313 Historical Documents with Helton on Ancestry
- 157,856 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 66,641 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,698 Military Records
- 2,606 Immigration Records
- 326,512 Member Trees
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Number of Helton families
 165 - 328  56 - 164 |
 1 - 55  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Helton families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Helton census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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