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The surname Sutton.?

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Does anyone have any information on the surname Sutton? Like its origins, whether it is a working class name, and what nationality it is? Perhaps the meaning?

My mother's family name is Greenhalgh and I think my heritage is British pretty far back but it would be interesting to know if there was any foreign links!

Haha I'm obsessed with finding out my family tree!

Thankyou very much!!!

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  1. House of Names can furnish you with a family history for persons named Sutton but it might not belong to everyone named Sutton.

    Beware of surname product peddlers that sell coats of arms on walnut plaques, tshirts, keychains, coffee mugs.  Frequently what they have is a valid coat of arms for someone with the surname above or below the coat of arms.   Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. They were and are granted to individuals and are passed down through the legitimate directmale line of descent.

    Actually, there have been, for instance, 15 different men with the same surname, not all necessarily related, each granted their own coat of arms, all different.  No one peddler that sells them on the internet, at airports, in shopping mall, in magazines or solicit by mail will have all 15.  They don't need to in order to sell to people.  The only time they will have more than one is if more than one person with the same surname from different national origins were granted one.  In that case they will have one of each and there might have been several of each.

    See the links below, one from the British College of Arms and the other from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.

    The best way to know your heritage is to start with yourself and work back one generation at a time.  Get as much information from living family as possible, particularly senior members. Tape them if they will let you.  It might turn out they are confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might turn out to be very significant.

    Go to your public libary and find out what all they have. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com which has lots of records. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They also have U.K. censuses.

    Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. Even if you see the same information repeatedly by many different subscribers on the same people that is no guarantee it is correct.  A lot of people copy without verifying.

    A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons.

    They are free to use.  In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.

    I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell.  I haven't heard of them doing that to anyones else that has used their resources.  They are just very nice and helpful.

    You have to realize the name Sutton is only a small part of you.  You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 grandparents that totals 14 people.  As you go back your direct ancestors pyramids.  You get back 10 generations you can be directly descended from over a thousand people.  Back 20 generations it is over a million people.  So you see Sutton isn't all that you are.

    If you have any questions come back and ask them on this board. There are a lot of nice people who are eager to help. Just identify the country and if the U.S., the state.

    Your question is on an All English Speaking Board and people from the U.S.,U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand are on it.


  2. its of anglo saxon origin found mainly in the east of england london and the south of england

  3. Sutton :-

    This most interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is an English locational name from any of the places so called, widespread in England; for example, Sutton in Bedfordshire, which appears as "Sudtone" in the Domesday Book of 1086. These placenames derive from the Olde English pre 7th Century elements "suth", south and "tun", an enclosure or village, a common placename element in England. Hence, the name means "the settlement of a main village". The surname dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 (see below) while Alnod Suttuna was recorded in 1086 in Cambridgeshire in Ancient Records of Ely. The surname appears a number of times in the 1379 Poll Tax Records of Yorkshire as "de Sutton", the "de" prefix meaning "of". Interesting namebearers include Oliver Sutton (deceased 1299) bishop of Lincoln, 1280 - 1299, who joined Archbishop Winchelsey in resisting the taxation imposed by Edward 1 in 1296; Thomas Sutton (1532 - 1611) founder of the Charterhouse, London, who was thought to be the richest commoner in England; & Robert Sutton (1594 - 1668) first Baron Lexington, who fought on the side of Charles 1. Families named Sutton were granted a total of forty-nine Coats of Arms. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ketel de Sudtone, which was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of Lincolnshire, during the reign of King William 1, known as "William the Conqueror", 1066 - 1087.

    http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...

    Greenhalgh :-

    Recorded in several quite distinct spellings as shown below, this interesting name is of pre 7th century Olde English origins. It is locational from either of two places in Lancashire, both called today "Greenhalgh" or a similarly named palce in Northumberland. The placenames are originally derived from "grene", meaning green, and "holh", a hollow or small valley, but these later divided to include suffix such as "halh" or hall, and "hus," a stone built house. Locational surnames were developed when former inhabitants of a place moved to another area, usually to seek work, and were best identified by the name of their birthplace. Over the centuries spelling being at best indifferent and localdialects very thick, lead as with this name, to the development of 'sounds like' spellings The placenames were first recorded as "Greneholf", in the Domesday Book of 1086, but after the 13th century the suffix of the placenames changed to "haugh", meaning a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, and this change greatly effected the surname spelling. This can now be found as Greenhalgh, Greenhalf, Greenhall, Greenall, Greenhaugh, Greenhough, Greenus and Greenhouse. John Greenhalgh was the royalist governor of the Isle of Man in the Civil War of 1642 - 1660. He died of his wounds at the battle of Worcester in 1651. Examples of the recordings include Matillda de Grenehalgh in the Subsidy Rolls of Lancashire in 1332, Elizabeth Grenowes at St Dionis Backchurch in the city of London, on April 26th 1612, and Sarah Greenehouse who was christened at St Margarets Westminster, on April 1st 1623. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard de Grenhal, which was dated 1230, in the Pipe Rolls of Shropshire, during the reign of King Henry 111, known as "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272.

    http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...

  4. no but r u doing a history project

  5. http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=3...

    Here is a pic of the family crest, to go along with info. already posted.
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