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quinton Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of the places, for example in Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, and Birmingham, named in Old English as cwen tun, from Old English as ‘the queen’s settlement’. Compare Kingston.
  2. from the Old French personal name Quentin, Quintin (see Quintin).
  3. (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the places in northern France named for St. Quentin of Amiens, a 3rd- century Roman missionary to Gaul, for example Saint-Quentin in La Manche or Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont in Somme, the site of his martyrdom.

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

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

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Distribution of quinton Families in the US in 1920
Number of quinton families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Quintons of Ky1800 to 1870's CMeyers6705 5
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Quinton Family in UK Kristina Quinton 9
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Olga Quinton DanAlvarez42 0
Samuel Quinton b. 1717 SC-m-Mary Humphrey Sharon Staton 31
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