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watton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place called Watton, as for example one in Norfolk, named from the Old English personal name Wada + tun ‘settlement’, or another, in East Yorkshire, which takes its name from Old English w?t ‘wet’ + dun ‘hill’.

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Distribution of watton Families in the US in 1920
Number of watton families
 27-52
 10-26		 1-9
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Threads: 30 - Messages: 103
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John Watton m: Jone Fell daphnekenney 2
Wattons of Ruiton / Gornal / Sedgley John_Everson 21
Watton , WV Brenda Wolfe 5
John Edwin Peters - Crmolin, Bulguria kathud3336 0
Winfield cbn28 0
Henry Watton b. 1809 Staffordshire, England karenfoldesi1 0
Nancy Watton, St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri audreydiener 0
WATTON, William, Hilda and Nancy-St. Louis, Missouri AudreyDiener51 4
Heather Watton Anne Scott Brownlee 2
watton jolene henderson 18
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