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deighton Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of several places in Yorkshire named Deighton, from Old English dic ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tun ‘settlement’, ‘enclosure’. See also Ditton.

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The deighton name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the deighton family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of deighton Families in the US in 1920
Number of deighton families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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George Deighton - Hannah Matheson c1870 Patti Flynn Heimsness 1
Yorkshire DEIGHTON/DEETON MAndrew6862 14
Deighton gpollock01 1
deighton family history caroletidball 0
archive catalogue lwd1942 0
John Deighton/dighton lwd1942 0
More Deightons from Yorkshire juliestevans1 14
deighton's of bradford west yorkshire lwd1942 5
Deighton, Vause armadale 2
Jane Deighton ~ bp 1609 BasketLady420 1
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