Researching Mark Colton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1002 people with the Colton surname? In that year Colton was ranked number 2590 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Mark means "warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Mark Colton on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mark Colton and the Colton Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 1770 people with the Colton surname in the UK? Colton is now ranked number 2492 for popularity in the UK. |
Colton Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Colton surname in the USA? Colton is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Mark Colton. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Mark Colton
Mark Colton
Mark Colton (17 March 1961 – 5 August 1995) was a British racing driver and software author.
He was killed in practice for Craigantlet Hillclimb speed event in Northern Ireland after his Pilbeam's front wing failed and he hit a telegraph pole.
Colton's best year was 1994, when he was runner-up to David Grace.
Outside motorsport, Colton was an influential figure in the development of software for personal computers, particularly those made by Acorn Computers, being the author of the Acornsoft View range and View Professional for the BBC Micro, with the latter being the predecessor of the PipeDream integrated suite for the Cambridge Z88 portable computer, Acorn Archimedes and IBM PC compatibles. Having founded Colton Software to market PipeDream, the company followed up with a range of applications - Wordz, Resultz and Recordz - comprising the Fireworkz suite, this being released for RISC OS and Microsoft Windows. In a tribute to Colton, Charles Moir, founder of Computer Concepts - the "chief rival" to Colton Software - called him "one of only a handful of people in this country who could and did develop decent, competitive, mainstream applications".
Source: Mark Colton, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Colton
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