English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a place so named,
probably the one in Lincolnshire, although there is also one in
Wiltshire. The place name is derived from Old English netele
‘nettle’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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