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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ATHERTON

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(origin: Sax. Local) From Atherstone, a town in Warwickshire, England.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from a place near Manchester named Atherton, from the Old English personal name Æ{dh}elhere + Old English tun ‘settlement’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)