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Chatterton
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Origin Of The Surname Chatterton
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Meaning Of The Surname Chatterton
From the Town with the Fort on the Hill
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Interesting
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Chatterton
Chatterton is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself is a mixture of both Celtic and Old English and was probably established in the borderlands. It comes from the Celtic ‘cader’ which referred to a fortified building on a hill, combined with the Old English ‘tun’ meaning a settlement or town. |
Chatterton Statistics
Chatterton is the number 1462 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,624 share the surname Chatterton in the UK.
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