Last name: OVERTON
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OVERTON : This last name is indexed 83,994 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
OVERTON : English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. Most are named from Old English uferra ‘upper’ + tūn ‘settlement’; others have Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’ or ofer ‘slope’ as the first element.
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