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melton Name Meaning and History

Northern English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire, all of which have the same origin as Middleton, with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent meðal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of melton Families in the US in 1920
Number of melton families
 218-433
 73-217		 1-72
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James Edward Melton/Martha Biggs m.1883 DeKalb Co. TN jkcole2 0
Melton Reunion TammyLynnSmithKing 1
Melton's in Tn in 1800's drains27 8
Meltons of MO, KS and OK Kinfinder53 0
Capt. Jesse Melton III of Randallstown, Md., died Sept. 9, 2008 RIP_08 0
looking for my cousin Patty Simkins 5
Mary Melton Judith Lee Butler 13
great grandfather john melton 5
John Melton and Family in SC 1820 - 1890 Richard Singletary 3
John Melton 1800's in SC NC Richard Singletary 6
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