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Where did the English Horton family come from? What is the English Horton family crest and coat of arms? When did the Horton family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Horton family history?
The roots of the Anglo-Saxon name Horton come from when the family resided in one of the many places called Horton; settlements of this name are particularly common in Yorkshire. The surname Horton belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxon habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
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Please remember that this page is only a small extract of our complete history that includes: - Ancient origin of the name (usually pre-1100)
- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore, spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Horton has been recorded under many different variations, including Horton, Horten and others.First found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Horton research. Another 335 words(24 lines of text) covering the years 1210 and 1296 are included under the topic Early Horton History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Horton. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Horton or a variant listed above:
Horton Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Barnabas Horton, who landed in Massachusetts in 1635
- Isaac Horton settled in Virginia in 1636
- Isaac Horton, who arrived in Virginia in 1636
- Barth Horton settled in Virginia in 1638
- Barth Horton, who arrived in Virginia in 1638
Horton Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Richd Horton, who arrived in Virginia in 1701
- George Horton, who arrived in Virginia in 1702
- Eliz Horton, who arrived in Virginia in 1704
- John Horton, who landed in Baltimore, Md in 1720
- Nathan Horton, who landed in Mississippi in 1798
Horton Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- James Horton, aged 27, arrived in New York in 1812
- Joseph Horton, who arrived in Buffalo, NY in 1835
- Daniel Horton, who arrived in New York, NY in 1838
- Mathias Horton, who arrived in New York, NY in 1850
- Thomas Horton, who arrived in New York, NY in 1850
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- Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970), American film and television actor who appeared in more than 120 films, in addition to a body of work on TV
- Martin Horton (1936-2011), English cricketer
- Sir Robert Horton, British Chancellor of the University of Kent from 1990-1995
- Joseph Douglas Horton Ph.D., Canadian Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick
- Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton (1930-1974), Canadian professional (NHL) hockey player and later founder of the "Tim Horton's" coffee shop, the largest quick-service food chain in Canada with over 2,700 outlets
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- Descendants of David Horton of North Carolina by Reta M. Evans.
- Descendants of Thomas Horton of Springfield; and Including Some Descendants of Phineas Pratt by Carl W. Fischer.
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- Mills, A.D. Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4).
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- Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
- Bede, The Venerable. Historia Ecclesiatica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History Of the English People). Available through Internet Medieval Sourcebook the Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies. Print.
- Lennard, Reginald. Rural England 1086-1135 A Study of Social and Agrarian Conditions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Print.
- Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3).
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The Horton Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Horton Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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