When Amy Anne Guyton was born about 1762, in Union, Union, South Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Bird Lanier, was 30 and her mother, Theana Herring, was 26. She married Murray in 1783, in Duplin, North Carolina, United States. She died in 1813, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Union, South Carolina, United States.
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English (East Anglia): from a local dialect pronunciation, /gaitn/, of the habitational name Gayton and of the placename from which it derives.
Possibly also an altered form of French Guiton .
History: This surname is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. The former lists Samuel Guyton as the Huguenot ancestor of the Guytons, while the latter lists Jean Guiton or Guyton. Samuel Guyton died in 1696 in Norwich, England, and it was his grandson John, born 1696, who left England and came to MD before 1740. However, Samuel and John's surname is entirely consistent with an English, rather than a French Huguenot, origin.
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