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This
English family name, Hylton, is "habitation" in its origin.
"Habitation", in the science of nomenclature, tells where the
original family came from, and in some cases the exact location of the
residence. It is usual for most to have distinguishing signs (Arms) which
was associated with that residence
The name "Hylton" (with its variants of "Hilton and
Hillton") indicates "one who came from the old English
"heilde" or "hyll", meaning slope or hill).
The "tun" means "enclosure, homestead, settlement, or, in
modern parlance, "town".
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One of the earliest reference
to this name is recorded as one Roger de Hilton,
mentioned in the Cartularium Abbathiae de Rievalle in 1132 ad. Other
listings include that of Symon de Hyltone in the Hundred
Rolls for Huntingdonshire in 1273, and of the marriage of Elizabeth Hylton
and John Pullen, recorded in Kippox, Yorkshire, UK, in 1541.
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George
Hylton was baptised
in Wragby, Lincolnshire in 1566, and the marriage of Agnes Hylton and Ralfe
Hutton took place in St. Peters, Sandwish, Co. Kent (southeast England) in
1583. Other notable bearers of the surname Hylton include the
baronial family of Hilton, who derives their name from Castle Hylton (seen in the pictures) or Hilton in County Durham
(northeast England). The current Lord Hylton of Ammerdown, near Bath in
Somerset, is the hereditary peer of that lineage - although that
inheritance actually came via the female line (i.e. via Elizabeth Hylton,
mentioned above).
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Although some English surnames exist that had
become fixed and hereditary by the end of the twelfth century, the English
scholar P.H. Reaney tells us that in that same century "we have an
unsettled and varied type of nomenclature". Like my own country,
Jamaica, in the 19th century, I concluded we had much in common! (Source: the
Historical Research Center).
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