When Thomas A Orton was born in 1850, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Orton Jr., was 35 and his mother, Mary Ann Ward, was 36. He lived in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 10 July 1851, in United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Pioneer Children's Memorial, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
English: habitational name from any of various places called Orton in Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Westmorland. All those in England share a second element from Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, but the first element in each case is more difficult to determine. Examples in Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire are on the banks of rivers, so these are probably derived from Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’; in other cases it is impossible to distinguish between ofer ‘ridge’ and ufera ‘upper’. Orton in Westmorland is probably formed with the Old Norse byname Orri ‘black-cock’ (the male black grouse). Orton near Fochabers, Scotland, is of uncertain etymology.
Americanized form of Norwegian Årtun: habitational name from the farm name Årtun, found in six places, e.g. in the province of Rogaland, a compound of the genitive case singular of Old Norse á ‘small river’ and tún ‘farm yard (surrounded by buildings)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesFrom The Kinship Book of North Ogden, Item 13 Film #87449 My Grandfather John Orton, son of John Orton and Esther West, was born 12 Apr. 1815, at Leicestershire, England. He married Mary Ann ward, bo …
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