When Robert Alexander Stratton was born on 3 September 1858, in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Richard Stratton, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Amelia Dawson, was 23. He married Elizabeth Farnsworth in October 1879, in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Nottingham St Nicholas, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Radford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1901, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 43.
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’.
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