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charlton Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the numerous places called Charlton, mainly in southern England, from Old English Ceorlatun ‘settlement (Old English tun) of the peasants’. Old English ceorl denoted originally a free peasant of the lowest rank, later (but probably already before the Norman conquest) a tenant in pure villeinage, a serf or bondsman.
  2. Irish: altered form of Carlin.

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Distribution of charlton Families in the US in 1920
Number of charlton families
 88-173
 30-87		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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