NORTON

(origin: Local) From Norton, a town in Yorkshire, England. The north-town.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

NORTON. The Gazetteer mentions between forty and fifty parishes, townships, &c., so called, and there are hundreds of farms and minor localities. The word means simply — the northern homestead or enclosure, and corresponds to Sutton, Easton, and Weston. The original name of Lord Grantley's family was Coigniers, until temp. Edw. II., when PiOger C. married the heiress of Norton, of Norton, co. York, and their son took the maternal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.