Boughton Family History
Boughton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so
named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire),
Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named
from the Old English byname Bucca (see Buck 1) + Old
English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; those in Cheshire and
Kent are named with Old English boc ‘beech’ + tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Boughton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boughton families
 93 - 183  32 - 92 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Boughton families
|
126 - 249 43 - 125 |
1 - 42 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boughton Family Origin
Boughton Immigration Information
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Boughton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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