When Harry Lawton was born in March 1911, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Harvey LeRoy Lawton, was 24 and his mother, Hazel Maud Gorvett, was 19. He lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
English:
habitational name, from Church Lawton in Cheshire, which is recorded as Lautune in 1086. The placename derives from Old English hlāw ‘mound, hill’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
variant of Laughton .
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