Last name: LAWTON
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LAWTON : This last name is indexed 141,532 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LAWTON : English:: 1: 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’.2: variant of Laughton.
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