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The roughton Surname

roughton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places named Roughton or Wroughton. Roughton, Lincolnshire, the most likely source of the surname according to its present-day distribution, and Roughton, Norfolk, are both named from Old English ruh ‘rough’ or Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + tun ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. Roughton, Shropshire is named with Old English ruh + tun, and Wroughton, Wiltshire (the least likely source of the surname) from Worf, a Celtic river name meaning ‘winding stream’, + Old English tun.

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

Distribution of roughton Families in the US in 1920
Number of roughton families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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