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kirton Name Meaning and History

Northern English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire, named with Old English cirice or Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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Distribution of kirton Families in the US in 1920
Number of kirton families
 10-18
 4-9
 1-3
 0
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