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acton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places, especially in Shropshire and adjacent counties, named Acton. Generally, these are from Old English ac ‘oak’ + tun ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The acton name in History

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Distribution of acton Families in the US in 1920
Number of acton families
 50-97
 17-49		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 181 - Messages: 518
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James Acton MActon1327 9
RICHARD ACTON AND MINERVA LEWIS caldo_799 1
Old Acton Cemetery Ron Johnson 2
The Acton family: A quest for history dukefamily2006 1
James Acton PhilActon47 16
Joseph Whittaker Acton & Emily Dangerfield Married 1893 JanetBlanchard27 1
Alonzo Acton in Ontario lona oreilly 5
Acton Martha Acton Powers 9
Acton man associated with the Lost Colony RobertaEstes13 0
Richard Alfred Acton of Charles County, Maryland CBS63951 3
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