Beaton (surname)
Beaton is a surname in the English language, which has multiple origins. One origin of the name is from the placename of Béthune, in Pas-de-Calais, France. Another derivation is from the mediaeval personal name Beaton, Beton, which is pet form of a short form of the names Bartholomew or Beatrice.[1] Bartholomew is a masculine name, while Beatrice is a feminine name; the names are not etymologically related to each other.[2] Another derivation of the surname Beaton is that it is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Beath.[1] According to George Fraser Black, there were two families in the Inner Hebrides that Anglicised their surnames to Beaton. One such family were the MacBeths on Islay and Mull; the first record of the family is a Gaelic charter of Fercos Macbetha in about 1408. According to Black, the Beatons on Skye were related to the Bethunes from Fife.[3]
The surname Beaton can be represented in Scottish Gaelic as Peutan (masculine form), and Pheutan (feminine form).[4]
List of people with the surname
- Alex Beaton, Scottish folk-singer currently living in Franklin, Tennessee
- Alistair Beaton, (born 1947), Scottish political satirist, novelist and television writer
- Cecil Beaton, (1904–1980), English photographer
- David Cardinal Beaton, (1494–1545), last Scottish Cardinal prior to the Reformation.
- Ewan Beaton, (born 1969), Canadian judoka
- James Beaton, (1473–1539), Archbishop of Glasgow
- James Beaton II, (1517–1603), Archbishop of Glasgow
- James Wallace Beaton, (born 1943), Queen's Police Officer
- M. C. Beaton, pseudonym for Marion Chesney
- Kate Beaton, Canadian author of the webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant"
- Mary Beaton, attendant of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Michael Beaton, Australian ice hockey player
- Noel Beaton, (1925–2004), Australian politician
- Norman Beaton, (1934–1994), Guyanan actor
- Rosie Beaton, Australian radio announcer
- Steve Beaton, (born 1964), English darts player, 1996 BDO World Champion
References
- ^ a b "Learn about the family history of your surname". Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?. Retrieved 10 October 2010. which cited Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508137-4. for the surname "Beaton".
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 28–29, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
- ^ Black, George Fraser (1946), The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History, New York: New York Public Library, p. 63
- ^ Mark, Colin (2006), The Gaelic-English Dictionary, London: Routledge, p. 722, ISBN 0-203-22259-8