When Franklin Boardman Colton was born on 1 April 1833, in Manlius, Manlius, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Ebenezer Colton, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Cooley, was 30. He married Catharine Hill on 17 August 1859, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Darby Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 5 March 1893, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .
Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .
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