Gorton Family History
- Gorton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so named from Old English gor ‘dirt’, ‘mud’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 347,596 Historical Documents with Gorton on Ancestry
- 115,023 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 64,916 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,557 Military Records
- 5,875 Immigration Records
- 153,225 Member Trees
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Number of Gorton families
 554 - 1,105  185 - 553 |
 1 - 184  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gorton families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gorton census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Gorton census records
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