Merton Family History
- Merton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places called Merton in London, Devon, Norfolk, and Oxfordshire, named in Old English with mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Compare Marton, Martin 2.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 63,061 Historical Documents with Merton on Ancestry
- 18,182 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,357 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,770 Military Records
- 3,151 Immigration Records
- 17,601 Member Trees
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Number of Merton families
 59 - 115  20 - 58 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Merton families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Merton 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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