I put this on the Bedfordshire sub-board today but didn't quite finish it before accidentally posting it, so hopefully I get it right this time. I used that sub-board as his ancestral line could be Stantons in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Another possible place of origin is Warwickshire so I am now posting on that sub-board as well; I trust that is in order.
I am trying to determine the English origin of one Thomas Stanton who migrated from England to North America in 1635 sailing in "Bonaventure" at the recorded age of 20 yrs. He settled in Connecticut where, at Hartford in 1637, he married Anna Lord who had 10 or so children. Thomas died in 1677. There are at least two schools of thought in regard to the ancestry of Thomas.
One is that Thomas was born in Wolverton, Warwickshire, a son of Thomas Stanton and Katherine Washington, with years of birth varying from one family historian to another, but mostly between 1914 and 1917. An online search using findmypast.com.au reveals only one such event:
Last name First name Born Died Event Record set Location
Stanton Thomas — — 1617 England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 Wolverton, Warwickshire, England
Another school of thought (promoted inter alia by Robert J. Stanton) is that Thomas was born in 1613 in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire, being a son of William Stanton. A search of Cambridgeshire Baptisms using findmypast.com.au reveals the following:
First name(s) Last name Birth year Baptism year Father's first name Mother's first name Baptism place
Thomas Stanton 1613 1613 William — Longstowe
It is possible that the grandfather of Thomas was Willam Stanton, born 1540 Eversholt, Bedfordshire and died 1582 in Clophill, Bedfordshire.
Thomas, a Puritan, became a prominant member of society in Connecticutt. Does anyone have any evidence to support one English county of ancestry over another as to the origin of Thomas?
