Altens meaning | Last name Altens origin

Family name Altens is variant form of Doulton. Probably Dolton, a parish in Devonshire.

Altens is a variant form of Alton. A town in Hampshire, and parishes or places in counties Wilts, Dorset, Stafford, &c.

Altens is a variant of Allerton. There are parishes and chapelries so called in counties Lancaster, York, Somerset, etc.

The family name is form of Allerton. Alder-tree town.

The variant of Alton. One who came from Alton i.e., the old village or the village at the source of the river. The name of several places in England.

A variant form of Dalton. One who came from Dalton meaning "village in the valley," the name of several places in England.

Altens is variant of Dalton. Parishes and places in counties Lancaster, Northumberland, Durham, York, Dumfries, Lanark, & c. Dalton Hall, in the first named county of, hadowners of its own name temp. Edward III. From them sprang the Daltons of Thurnham.

Family name is form of Dalton. "The tradition of the introduction of this family from France into Ireland, as preserved in the Office of Arms, records Walter D'Alton to have been its founder; that he secretly married a daughter of Louis, King of France, and having thereby incurred that monarch's displeasure, fled to England, whence he passed with Henry II on the invasion of Ireland. He early acquired possessions in the western portion of Meath, where he and his descendants founded religious houses, and erected castles." D'Alton.