Pinkerton

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Habitational surname from a place near Dunbar, from an unexplained first element + Old English tūn(“enclosure”). This surname is well established in Scotland and Northern Ireland.


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Pinkerton

in reference to a semi-official detective, 1888 (Pinkerton men), from the detective agency begun in U.S. 1850 by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884).