Last name: APPLETON

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APPLETON : This last name is indexed 117,317 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
APPLETON : English: habitational name from any of the many places in all parts of England named Appleton from Old English æppeltūn ‘orchard’ (literally ‘apple enclosure’). Apples were particularly important in the Middle Ages as a food for survival through the winter.
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