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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Leicestershire, Surrey, and Sussex, so named from Old English stoc ‘dependent settlement’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • Israel Stoughton, who came to New England from England in about 1630, was one of the founders of Dorchester, MA, and became one of the largest landowners in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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