Altom Family History
- Altom Name Meaning
- Probably one of several variants of English Halton or Alton, but it could also be an altered form of English Altham, which is a habitational name from Altham in Whalley, Lancashire, named in Old English as ‘river meadow (hamm) of the swans (elfitu)’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 39,277 Historical Documents with Altom on Ancestry
- 4,600 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,768 Census and Voter Lists
- 646 Military Records
- 64 Immigration Records
- 31,199 Member Trees
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Number of Altom families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Altom census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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