The henton Surname
henton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place so called, probably either
the one in Oxfordshire, which is named from Old English
hean, the weak dative case of heah ‘high’
(originally used after a preposition and article), + Old English
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, or the one in Somerset, which
is from Old English henn ‘hen’ (perhaps a byname) +
tun. The surname, however, is now most common in
Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, and could be a variant of
Hinton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Henton Family of Whitfield County Georgia |
 RandallTrammell
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| Henton in Erie Warren County, PA | Jenny Grove-Bradshaw | 4 |
| James Henton & Helen Augusta Crook |
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| Obituary of Velma Henton Bradley Ames |
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| Henton or Hinton family in Clark County Arknasas | Lucinda (Henton) Blankenship | 0 |
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