Ronald Selkirk Panton

Male11 May 1907–1963

Brief Life History of Ronald Selkirk

When Ronald Selkirk Panton was born on 11 May 1907, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Charles Stanley Panton, was 32 and his mother, Lois Winifred Bowman, was 32. He married Natalie Snessareff on 12 April 1930, in Berlin, Germany. He died in 1963, in his hometown, at the age of 56.

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Ronald Selkirk Panton
1907–1963
Natalie Snessareff
1907–
Marriage: 12 April 1930

Sources (3)

  • Ronald S Panton in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788
  • Ronald Selkirk Panton in the Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814
  • Ronald Selkirk Panton, Journalist in the Geneanet Community Trees Index

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    12 April 1930Berlin, Germany
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (6)

    1911

    Age 4

    Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.

    1914

    Age 7

    August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.

    1939

    Age 32

    Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

    Name Meaning

    English (mainly Lincolnshire):

    habitational name either from Panton (Lincolnshires), which is recorded as Pantone in 1086, or more likely, because of the status of many of the early bearers, from Great Ponton (Lincolnshire), recorded as Pamptune and Pamtone in 1086. Panton probably derives from Old English panne ‘pan’, with the sense ‘broad, shallow depression or hollow’, + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, but the first element of Great Ponton is uncertain, perhaps an unrecorded Old English pamp ‘lump, hillock’.

    perhaps a habitational name from Pamington (Gloucestershire), recorded as Pauynton in 1287 and Panington in 1372. Paunton is another possible form of this name, though not on record. The placename seems to derive from an Old English personal name Pæfen + the Old English genitival connective -ing- + tūn, hence ‘Pæfen's farm’. However, the medieval Lincolnshire Pa(u)nton family were socially high-ranking and highly mobile, so bearers from other counties may belong with 1.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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