Saxton Family History
Saxton Name Meaning
habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire,
possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English
Seaxe ‘Saxons’ + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’.variant of Sexton 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Saxton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Saxton families
 114 - 226  39 - 113 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Saxton families
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299 - 595 100 - 298 |
1 - 99 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Saxton families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Saxton Family Origin
Saxton Immigration Information
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Saxton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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