Surname:Overton

Overton Surname Facts

Meaning

The surname Overton is a habitational name derived from the Old English words uferra (over, higher, upper), or less frequently ōfer (border, margin, riverbank, seashore), and tūn (enclosure, farm, homestead, town).^[1]

Profiles of Prominent Overtons

• Gen. Robert Overton, b. abt. 1609, English, soldier and scholar, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

Additional Resources

• Overton DNA Project
• The Overton Surname on Ancestry.com
• Notable Overtons on Wikipedia

References

1. ↑ From "The Overton Surname: Overton Name Meaning and History" on Ancestry.com,[1] and Hall, John R. Clark, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1894).[2]