Dalton (surname)

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Dalton is a surname of Norman origin found in Ireland and Britain and places where people from those backgrounds emigrated to. The Hiberno-Norman D'Alton (later Dalton) family controlled an area of the Irish midlands following the Norman invasion and assimilation into Ireland. An unrelated, prominent Norman-Irish gentry [1] family of the toponymic surname de Antōn arose in Co. Kilkenny in the late thirteenth century; [2] their surname was later corrupted to Daton or Dalton. [3]

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Notable people with the surname include:

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References

  1. ↑ Parker, Ciaran (1992). The Politics and Society of County Waterford in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries (Ph.D.). Trinity College.
  2. ↑ "The Daltons of Kildalton". doi:10.48151/fitzpatrickclansociety01624.
  3. ↑ Carrigan, W. (1905). The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. Vol. 4. Sealy, Bryers & Walker.

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