Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Stratton was born about 1722, in Huntington, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph P. Stratton, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Hawkes, was 22. She married Epenetus Bryan on 24 December 1739, in Huntington, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1749, in Gloucester, New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 28.
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- Elizabeth Stratton Btyant, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
- Elizabeth Stratton in entry for Epenetus Bryan, "New York Marriages, 1678-1985"
- Elizabeth Stratton Btyan, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of several places called Stratton or Stretton, almost all named with Old English strǣt ‘paved road, Roman road’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Stratton in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.
English: variant of Sturton, a habitational name from Sturton le Steeple (Nottinghamshire), Great Sturton (Lincolnshire), Sturton by Stow (Lincolnshire), or possibly Sturton (Northumberland), all of which placenames share the same etymology and early spellings as 1 above.
Scottish: habitational name from Straiton (Ayrshire), Straiton in Liberton (Midlothian), or South Straiton in Logie (Fife), all named with Old English strǣt ‘street, Roman road’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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