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The carlton Surname

carlton Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places called Carleton or Carlton, from Old Norse karl ‘common man’, ‘peasant’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’ (compare Charlton 1). Places spelled Carl(e)ton (as opposed to Charlton) are in areas of Scandinavian settlement, mostly in northern England.
  2. Irish: Americanized and altered form of Carlin 1.

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Distribution of carlton Families in the US in 1920
Number of carlton families
 105-208
 36-104		 1-35
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Info on John Robert Carlton littlecountryquilts 1
Bristol born Carlton sisters 1830s Kiwi_Cat 3
Will Carlton Dee Patterson 3
Seeking info bcak4e 1
looking for my father................ brittany2811 1
CARLTON Willis M 1881 1946 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
CARLTON Tena J 1884 1967 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
Charles A Carlton Newhaven 1886 petermason1 0
Carlton, Richard & Elizabeth > Kitsap WA in 1860 tomtorrent 0
Obit; Alice M. Carlton 1919-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
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