When Amos Harrison Dalton was born in 1839, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Smallwood Jefferson Dalton, was 24 and his mother, Rebecca Eskew, was 27. He lived in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1850 and Grove Station Church, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1860.
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English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Dalton in Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: The surname was taken to Ireland by English traders in the early 13th century .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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