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lawton Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. variant spelling of Laughton.

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Distribution of lawton Families in the US in 1920
Number of lawton families
 184-365
 62-183		 1-61
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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