The lawton Surname
lawton Name Meaning and History
- habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’, or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlaw ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- variant spelling of Laughton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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