Newton Family History
- Newton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, from Old English neowe ‘new’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English place name. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,175,180 Historical Documents with Newton on Ancestry
- 1,474,426 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 851,800 Census and Voter Lists
- 127,600 Military Records
- 73,066 Immigration Records
- 1,648,288 Member Trees
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Number of Newton families
 2,083 - 4,163  695 - 2,082 |
 1 - 694  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Newton families
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87 - 171 30 - 86 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Newton 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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