Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of several places so called. Allerton on Merseyside, Chapel Allerton in West Yorkshire, and others in West Yorkshire were named in Old English as alra tūn ‘settlement by the alders’. One in Somerset (Alwarditone in Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfweard’s settlement’; one in West Yorkshire (Allerton Mauleverer, Alvertone in Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfhere’s settlement’.
- Isaac Allerton (?1586–1658) was among the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. His descendants included Samuel Allerton (1828–1914), one of the founders of modern Chicago.