Beaton is a
Scottishsurname which may have multiple origins.
One origin of the name is from the placename
Béthune, in
Pas-de-Calais, France and is associated with the lowland clan
Bethune. Another derivation of the surname is an
Anglicisation of the Scottish
GaelicMac Beath,[1] and corresponds to the
Beaton medical kindred of the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles. The surname Beaton can be represented in modern
Scottish Gaelic as Peutan (masculine form), and Pheutan (feminine).[2]
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surnameBeaton. If an
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