Keeton Family History
- Keeton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place called Ketton in Durham or one in Rutland or from Keaton in Ermington, Devon. The first is named from the Old English personal name Catta or the Old Norse personal name Káti + Old English tun ‘settlement’; the second is probably from an old river name or tribal name Cetan (possibly a derivative of Celtic ced ‘wood’) + Old English ea ‘river’; and the last possibly from Cornish kee ‘hedge’, ‘bank’ + Old English tun.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 254,387 Historical Documents with Keeton on Ancestry
- 74,353 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,692 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,817 Military Records
- 1,334 Immigration Records
- 137,191 Member Trees
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Number of Keeton families
 83 - 164  28 - 82 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keeton census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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