English: habitational name from any of various places named Welton,
for example in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and East
Yorkshire, from Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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