Cayton Family History
Cayton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in North
Yorkshire called Cayton, near Scarborough and in South Stainley; both
are named from the Old English personal name C?ga + Old
English tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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Name Distribution of Cayton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cayton families
 28 - 54  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cayton families
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65 - 128 22 - 64 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cayton Family Origin
Cayton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Cayton
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Cayton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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