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English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English stÄn ‘stone’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other European languages, for example Polish Stanislawski and Greek Anastasiou.The explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) was born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales, but traveled as a cabin boy in 1858 from Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, LA, where he was adopted by a merchant surnamed Stanley. From the late 1860s he worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald, and traveled extensively in Africa.
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From the Town Near the Moor
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From the Farm or Moor
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English surname transferred to forename use, from the name of various places derived from Old English mortun, MORTON means "settlement on the moor."Â
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English : variant spelling of Morton 1.French : nickname from a double diminutive of More 2.Spanish (Moretón) : from moretón ‘brown’, ‘tanned’ (of skin).
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Mortagne in La Manche, France. This surname may have been sometimes confused with Morton.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named in Old English as ‘settlement (tÅ«n) by or on a marsh or moor (mÅr)’.Swedish : variant of Martin.French : contracted form of Moreton 2.Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames or of various other non-English names bearing some kind of similarity to it.The name Morton was established early in North America. George Morton (1585–1624), one of the Pilgrims, was probably born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. He and his son Nathaniel (b. 1613 in Leiden, the Netherlands) settled in Plymouth in 1623.
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Form of Morton; From the Town Near the Moor; Follower of Marduk
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From the farm near the moor.
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