F`enton English: habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn 'marsh', 'fen' + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement' Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna 'descendant of Fiachna', ...
Meaning: From the farm on the fens
Origin: English F~enton English: habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn 'marsh', 'fen' + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement' Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna 'descendant of Fiachna', ...
Meaning: From the farm on the fens
Origin: English