Wharton Family History
Wharton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Wharton. Examples in Cheshire and Herefordshire are from an Old
English river name Wæfer (derived from wæfre
‘wandering’, ‘winding’) + Old English tun ‘settlement’;
another in Lincolnshire has as its first element Old English
wearde ‘beacon’ or waroð ‘shore’, ‘bank’; one in the
former county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria) is from Old English
hwearf ‘wharf’, ‘embankment’ + tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wharton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wharton families
 111 - 220  38 - 110 |
 1 - 37  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wharton families
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536 - 1,070 179 - 535 |
1 - 178 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wharton families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wharton Family Origin
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Wharton Family Occupations
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