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The newton Surname

newton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, from Old English neowe ‘new’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English place name. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.

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

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

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Distribution of newton Families in the US in 1920
Number of newton families
 457-911
 153-456		 1-152
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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