When Richard Laughton was born on 29 January 1876, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Laughton, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Letts, was 23. He married Clara Elizabeth Spencer in 1895, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Newport, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939.
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English:
habitational name from Laughton en le Morthen in Yorkshire, Laughton in Leicestershire or any of the two places called Laughton in Lincolnshire (one near Gainsborough and another near Folkingham). The places are named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, meaning ‘village or farm where leeks are grown’. It may sometimes have alternated with Leighton , which is mostly from placenames with the same etymology.
variant of Lawton .
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