When Albert Frederick Laughton was born in 1896, in Rushden, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Albert Edward Laughton, was 11893 and his mother, Charlotte Maria Smith, was 27.
English:
habitational name from Laughton en le Morthen in Yorkshire, Laughton in Leicestershire or any of the two places called Laughton in Lincolnshire (one near Gainsborough and another near Folkingham). The places are named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, meaning ‘village or farm where leeks are grown’. It may sometimes have alternated with Leighton , which is mostly from placenames with the same etymology.
variant of Lawton .
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