When William Hatton was born in 1798, in Kingston Blount, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Hatton, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Britnell, was 29.
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English: habitational name from any of several places called Hatton (Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire), Hatton Hall (Cheshire), or Cold and High Hatton (Shropshire). The placenames derive from Old English hǣth ‘heath, heather’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Heath .
English: variant of Atton with prosthetic H-, a topographic name from Middle English atte toun ‘(dweller) at the settlement’ (Old English æt thǣm tūn(e)). Compare Towne .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chatáin, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) Catan’; see McHatton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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