The boughton Surname
boughton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so
named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire),
Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named
from the Old English byname Bucca (see Buck 1) + Old
English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; those in Cheshire and
Kent are named with Old English boc ‘beech’ + tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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