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The morton Surname

morton Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) by or on a marsh or moor (mor)’.
  2. Swedish: variant of Martin.
  3. French: contracted form of Moreton 2.
  4. Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames or of various other non-English names bearing some kind of similarity to it.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The morton name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the morton family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of morton Families in the US in 1920
Number of morton families
 370-738
 124-369		 1-123
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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