English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester
(formerly in Cheshire) called Warburton, from the Old English female
personal name W?rburh (composed of the elements
w?r ‘pledge’ + burh ‘fortress’) + Old English
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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