Is There a Moreton Coat of Arms?

Moreton? Think of it as Morton with a different pen. The name is usually explained as “Settlement on the moor”. The extra “e” in Moreton is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Mortoun and Moorton.

Spanish statistics put 405 people with Moreton in first position and 287 in second. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. French birth records list 540 children named Moreton between 1891 and 2000.

Arms linked to Morton and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Moreton report, with a museum-style coat of arms.