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.
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.
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