Brief Life History of William
When William Stratton was born before 21 June 1797, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Stratton, was 11794 and his mother, Susannah Clayton, was 21. He married Mary Ann Grimes on 15 November 1818, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died from July 1872 to September 1872, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- William Stratton, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- William Stratton, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Stratton, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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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