Northern English: habitational name from any of various places, in
Cumbria, County Durham, North Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all named in
Old English as ‘settlement or enclosure at the marsh or moor’, from
mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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