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 ATHERTON

English Origin:

Coat of Arms: Three sparrow hawks on a red shield.
Atherton coat of arms English
Crest: A silver swan.

Origin: English
Spelling variations include: Atherton, Atheron and others.

First found in Lancashire where they have been seated from ancient times, well before the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Humphrey Atherton of Preston Lancashire who settled in 1638 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and joined the army and eventually became a Major General. James Atherton settled in New England in 1620.
Atherton English: habitational name from a place near Manchester named Atherton, from the Old English personal name Æ{dh}elhere + Old English tun ‘settlement’.

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