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Compton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places
throughout England (but especially in the south) named Compton, from
Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Compton
Name Distribution of Compton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Compton families
 152 - 302  51 - 151 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Compton families
|
296 - 589 99 - 295 |
1 - 98 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Compton families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Compton census records
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Compton Family Origin
Compton Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Compton
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Compton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Compton census records
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Compton Civil War Service Records
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