Barton Family History
- Barton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick. German and central European (e.g. Czech and Slovak Barton): from a pet form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (see Bartholomew).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,510,237 Historical Documents with Barton on Ancestry
- 1,153,915 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 704,991 Census and Voter Lists
- 108,484 Military Records
- 66,032 Immigration Records
- 1,476,815 Member Trees
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Number of Barton families
 2,060 - 4,118  687 - 2,059 |
 1 - 686  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barton families
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100 - 198 34 - 99 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Barton census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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