Renton Family History
- Renton Name Meaning
- Scottish: habitational name from a place in Berwickshire, ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Regna’ (a short form of the various compound personal names with the first element regen ‘govern’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 185,899 Historical Documents with Renton on Ancestry
- 47,856 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 49,767 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,480 Military Records
- 6,007 Immigration Records
- 77,789 Member Trees
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Number of Renton families
 221 - 439  74 - 220 |
 1 - 73  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Renton census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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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