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The horton Surname

horton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, are named from Old English horh ‘mud’, ‘slime’ or horn ‘dirt’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in southern Gloucestershire, however, is named from Old English heorot ‘hart’ + dun ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of horton Families in the US in 1920

Number of horton families

684-1365

229-683

1-228

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Thread	Author	Replies
James Horton, Died Jackson Co., Georgia, 1848	wdlindsy11	2
Jessie Hoyt Horton b. 1881 d. 1916 NS Canada	skelly1672	0
Jessie Hoyt Horton b. 1881 d. 1916 NS Canada	skelly1672	0
Gordon Horton Iowa/Michigan/Wyoming	KathleenLock96	14
Sidney or Abraham Horton from Mississippi	Lrevenaugh	0
Charles Horatio Horton and wife Eleanor ( New Brunswick )	Leroy_English	0
Hortons of Hortontown, NY	Patricia Horton Kallevig	17
James Horton of Nashville TN	oclarke11	0
HORTON Patrick L 1944-1947	t42MountOlivet	0
Parents of Abraham Horton b. 1722	mcalpage	24

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