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English : habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English norð ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. In some cases, it is a variant of Norrington.Irish : altered form of Naughton, assimilated to the English name.Jewish (American) : adoption of the English name in place of some like-sounding Ashkenazic name.Nicholas Norton (1610–90) came from Broadway, Somerset, England, to Weymouth, MA, in 1635–37. In about 1657 he moved to Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. He had ten children and many prominent descendants.
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Swedish (Nordén) : ornamental name formed with norr, nord ‘north’ + the common surname suffix -én, from Latin -enius.North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places so called in East Friesland, Schleswig-Holstein, and former East Prussia. The German surname may have arisen as a topographic name from a field so named because of its northerly aspect.Dutch : patronymic from Nord 3.English : habitational name from a minor place name, probably Norden in West Alvington, Devon, or possibly Norton Green in Stockbury, Kent.
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From the Northern Town
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English : topographic name from Middle English hauk, hauek ‘hawk’ + ley(e) ‘open country’, ‘grassland’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Hawkesley Hall in King’s Norton, Worcestershire, named from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’, ‘clearing’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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From the north farm.
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