Colton Family History
Colton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places
called Colton in England, perhaps also Colton House in Scotland.
Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the
Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse
Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its
first element the Old English personal name Cula (of
uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently
derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Colton
Name Distribution of Colton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colton families
 86 - 170  29 - 85 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Colton families
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88 - 173 30 - 87 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colton families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Colton Family Origin
Colton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Colton
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Colton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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