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BARTON


Surname Etymology and Meaning of BARTON


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(origin: Sax. Local) From a town in Lincolnshire, England; a corn town, or barley village, from bere, barley, and ton, an inclosure, a house, a village. Barton, a curtilage. In Devonshire, it is applied to any freehold estate not possessed of manorial privileges.

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