The fenton Surname

fenton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example Finkelstein (see Funke).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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The fenton name in History

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

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Distribution of fenton Families in the US in 1920

Number of fenton families

165-328

56-164

1-55

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Andrew Fenton of Va.	wvap_2	0
Andrew Fenton, USS Monitor	artemis3676	5
Andrew Fenton of New Jersey	LeffertsOne	1
fentons of Victoria Australia	franmanning20	0
The FIG Tree News website update (FENTON)	l_fenton	0
Robert Fenton 1840	essexclark	2
Descendants of Samuel Fenton and Mary Taylor	rsbegovatz	2
Fentons in Mitchelstown, Cork Ireland	coventry_sterileservices	3
FENTONS from TN (outside Knoxville) in early 1800s-Namath and Patience	JamesFenton1948	0
SUSANNAH FENTON BORN 1839/40 IPSWICH, SUFFOLK	Yvonne P Thorpe	1

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