Heighton Family History
Heighton Name Meaning
English (Midlands): apparently a habitational name from South
Heighton in East Sussex, named from Old English heah ‘high’
+ tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. However, the high
concentration of the modern name in the Midland region suggests that
in many cases it is likely to be a variant of Hayton,
specifically from the places so named in Nottinghamshire and East
Yorkshire.
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Name Distribution of Heighton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heighton families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Heighton families
|
64 - 126 22 - 63 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Heighton Family Origin
Heighton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Heighton
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Heighton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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