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View Tree for William StrattonWilliam Stratton (b. 1585, d. 1647)

William Stratton (son of William Stratton) was born 1585, and died 1647 in Tenterden, County Kent499. He married Elizabeth Unknown.

 Includes NotesNotes for William Stratton:
Probably the most exhaustive treatment of the family is the excellent two-volume "Book of Strattons" compiled in 1908 (Vol. 1) and 1918 (Vol. II) by Harriet Russell Stratton of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 878 pages in all. Unfortunately she was unable to trace all of the American Strattons back to a common ancestor in Great Britain. The name was a place-name and probably had many origins. It derives from two Anglo-Saxon words: street, a paved road; and tun, an enclosure, a home or small village. When the Saxons came into Britain they found there the paved roads of the Romans. Such road they had never before seen and having no name by which to designate them, they began to use the Roman word stratum, which soon became street, from which comes our word street. To an enclosure the Saxons gave the name tun, and from this we get our word town, which in the termination of names is now usually contacted into "ton", as East-town - Easton. There are in England more than forty placed called Stratton or Streeton, and near most of them traces of old Roman roads may still be seen.

When surnames came into use about the eleventh century, men took these names from the localities in which they lived as well as from occupations, mental traits, physical features, etc. After the Norman invasion the prefix "de" was used before a place-name in process of turning into a surname, as for instance "de Straton, De Strate, then Stratton, Straiton" and so forth.

William Stratton is believed to have belonged to the Strattons of Shrivenham in Berkshire, about seventy miles from London 1530-1660. Shrivenham is a picturesque old village near the remnant of a Roman road. Father of Richard and John was William born 1585 who lived in London from 1606 to 1636 then moved to Tenterden in County Kent where he died in 1647.


Children of William Stratton and Elizabeth Unknown are:
  1. +John Stratton, b. Bef. Aug 14, 1621, London, St. Leonard Parish, Eastcheap, England, d. 1685499.
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