Last name: CLAXTON
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CLAXTON : This last name is indexed 46,770 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CLAXTON : English: habitational name from any of various places called Claxton for example in County Durham Norfolk and Yorkshire or from Long Clawson (Leicestershire). All are derived from an English genitive form of the Old Norse personal name Klakkr (see Clack) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
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