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turton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Turnton, a place in Lancashire named from the Old Norse personal name þórr (see Thor) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The surname is now as common in the Midlands as it is in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the turton family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of turton Families in the US in 1920
Number of turton families
 11-19
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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