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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 489,367 Historical Documents with Colton on Ancestry
- 105,457 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 70,581 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,212 Military Records
- 8,991 Immigration Records
- 292,126 Member Trees
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Number of Colton families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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88 - 173 30 - 87 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- Union
- 260
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