The turton Surname
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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| Eli Turton |
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| Samuel Ernest Turton |
 badrill118
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| Eli Turton of Birmingham.... |
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| TURTON of West Bromwich |
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| turtons turtons everywhere!!! | richard turton | 1 |
| ALICE MAY TURTON B.1880 |
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| Alfred E Turton |
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| Turtons in Spain | Samuel Fernandez Turton | 3 |
| Henry Turton 1856 - son of David Turton |
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| Mary TURTON m John Goodman SIMKINS - Australia 1854 |
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