When Ephraim Norton was born on 12 July 1768, in Durham, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Stephen Norton, was 27 and his mother, Experience Gaylord, was 26. He married Patty Buell on 13 June 1798, in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. He died in February 1855, in New York, United States, at the age of 86.
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English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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