When Nicholas Dalton was born in 1352, in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir John Dalton, was 23 and his mother, Alice de Hussey, was 21.
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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 .
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