English: habitational name from any of the places, in Kent and
Norfolk, so called from Old English Swanatun ‘settlement
(Old English tun) of the retainers’ (see Swan 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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