Kenton Family History
- Kenton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Devon, Greater London (formerly Middlesex), and Suffolk. All have as the second element Old English tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The first element of the place in Devon is a pre-English river name; the place in London is named with the Old English personal name Cena; and the place in Suffolk is named either with Cena or more probably with Old English cyne- ‘royal’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 95,110 Historical Documents with Kenton on Ancestry
- 28,177 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 23,331 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,037 Military Records
- 1,393 Immigration Records
- 38,172 Member Trees
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Number of Kenton families
 42 - 81  15 - 41 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kenton families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kenton 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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