Tarlton Family History
- Tarlton Name Meaning
- habitational name from Tarleton in Lancashire, near Croston, named with the Old Norse personal name þóraldr (composed of the elements þórr, name of the Norse god of thunder (see Thor) + valdr ‘rule’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. habitational name from Tarlton in Gloucestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Torentune and in 1204 as Torleton, probably from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + leah ‘(forest) clearing’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 83,902 Historical Documents with Tarlton on Ancestry
- 31,093 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,064 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,961 Military Records
- 1,152 Immigration Records
- 32,632 Member Trees
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Number of Tarlton 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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