What country is the last name of Burton from?

Question:Ancestry.Com shows the following given as place of origin of Burton immigrants to the U.S.

England 631

Ireland 170

Great Britian 115

Scotland 30

Germany 24

Canada 13

They state it is English a habitational name
that is very common in central and northern England. The deviation in most cases is fom Old English burh 'fort' (see Burke) tun
'enclosure' 'settlement'

The same surname can come from more than one nationality. Not everyone with the same surname is necessarily related or shares ancestor. The best thing to do is to
trace your ancestors starting with yourself and work back. Anytime you wish to do this, there are lots of good people on this board that can give you some great tips and advice. Just ask.

Rootweb, free site, has over 200,000 entries in family trees for Burton. Just pull up the site and if you see anything that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Just don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and most is not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly that does not mean it is correct. A lot of people are copying without verifying.

Also since you are looking into a surname, be careful about peddlers of surname products, like coats of arms. A misnomer is a "family crest." See the links below. One from the British college of arms and the other from the U.S's National Genealogical Society.

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Ancestry.Com shows the following given as place of origin of Burton immigrants to the U.S.

England 631

Ireland 170

Great Britian 115

Scotland 30

Germany 24

Canada 13

They state it is English a habitational name
that is very common in central and northern England. The deviation in most cases is fom Old English burh 'fort' (see Burke) tun
'enclosure' 'settlement'

The same surname can come from more than one nationality. Not everyone with the same surname is necessarily related or shares ancestor. The best thing to do is to
trace your ancestors starting with yourself and work back. Anytime you wish to do this, there are lots of good people on this board that can give you some great tips and advice. Just ask.

Rootweb, free site, has over 200,000 entries in family trees for Burton. Just pull up the site and if you see anything that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Just don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and most is not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly that does not mean it is correct. A lot of people are copying without verifying.

Also since you are looking into a surname, be careful about peddlers of surname products, like coats of arms. A misnomer is a "family crest." See the links below. One from the British college of arms and the other from the U.S's National Genealogical Society.

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

It's from England - derived from burh (meaning fort) and tun (meaning enclosure). It's a common place name in mid/north England. Other variants are Bourton and Borton.

A town in Leicestershire, England. The name signifies either the town on the hill, or, the Bur-town, from the abundance of burs growing thereabouts.

Listen to Shirley.
Trace your ancestor to where he/she came from, not the surname.

Every time I answer a "Surname Origin?" question, I think of the joke:

Man sees a sign, "Olaf Olafson, Chinese Restaurant". He goes in, orders a plate of chow mein, asks the Chinese gentleman behind the counter who is Olaf. Chinese gentleman says, "Me! There I was at Ellis Island. The man in front of me was a Swede, six foot four, broad shoulders, red beard. They ask him 'Name?' he says 'Olaf Olafson', in a voice that makes the pens rattle in their holders. Off he goes to seek his fortune. They ask me 'Name?', I say 'Sam Ting', and here I am."

Seriously, you should have 16 surnames among your great great grandparents, unless you double up on Smith, Johnson, Miller or Jones or someone married a cousin.

If you are in the USA and trace your family tree, you might find a downtrodden immigrant who came through Ellis Island yearning to be free, a bootlegger, a flapper, a great uncle who died in the muddy trenches of France in 1917. You may find someone who marched off to fight in the Civil War (Maybe two, one wearing blue, one wearing grey). You may find a German who became Pennsylvania "Dutch", a Huguenot, an Irish Potato Famine immigrant. You might find someone who married at 18 and supported his family with musket, plow and axe in the howling wilderness we now call Ohio.

In the UK your chances of finding a homesteader are less, but your chances of finding that great uncle who served in WWI are better.

In Australia you may find someone who got a free ride to a new home, courtesy of the benevolent Government and HM Prison ship "Hope".

Your grandfather with that surname may have married a Scot, a Sioux, a Swede. HIS father, a stolid, dull protestant, may have married an Italian with flashing dark eyes, the first woman on the block to serve red wine in jelly glasses and use garlic in her stew. You'll never know if this is the only question you ask.

Somewhere in the UK. Which includes Wales, England....etc. So somewhere in there.