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bolton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern England named Bolton, especially the one in Lancashire, from Old English boðl ‘dwelling’, ‘house’ (see Bold 2) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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bolton Family Facts

Distribution of bolton Families in the US in 1920
Number of bolton families
 131-260
 44-130		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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