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Pembrokeshire / Re: Lifton surname
« on: Thursday 23 May 24 17:11 BST (UK)  »
Still looking into the Lifton family tree..........

The Liftons being Jews is an interesting one, I am aware that Jews have come to England since 1000AD.
I was told the Liftons ended up in Pembrokeshire as they were Whalers from Nantucket.
There were Sisson families who were Quaker/Whalers (mentioned more below).

I was told in our family that our surname originated from the village of Lifton in Devon.
That they were Devonshire Sailors, a lot of our ancestors are Sailors/Mariners etc...
I was told that we were also related to the Devonshire Arundells.

Supposedly Arundell is the original Cornish surname for Lifton?

Another family member mentioned we were linked to the Poco A Poco Listons of Scotland.

Going back to European links there was a Clyfton (I seen Lifton spelt Clifton) family who lived in Belgium in the 1500s they were religious and had fled England.
Afterwards they moved to the USA.

I have noted that there appears to be a trend of different spellings of the name of Lifton -

Listun - (From Bristol, England whos name then became Sisson/Lisson in the USA) does that mean TON changed to SON. I have seen records in the USA spelt Lisson and they could pass for Lifton.
Lyston
Lidston
Listone
Listoun
Lisson
Sisson

All settling in the USA in the 1600s and then many variations of the same surname.

A lot of Scottish Listons/Listone/Listoun were persecuted and fled to Ireland then to USA.

There is a lot of records of US Navy and other Military regarding the different spellings.

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Lifton surname
« on: Monday 23 April 18 22:08 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I remember hearing a similar story from a Lifton who lives in the USA.
I was informed that we were Whalers/Quakers from USA.
There appears to be different variants of the surname involving the Whalers/Quakers.

I have noted that Lisson was also spelt Liston/Lifton etc....

There is different lineages of Lissons and I have found that a group were French Huguenots who came over from Flanders and settled in Ireland around 1500s or before.

I read about the Huguenots descending from Sephardic Jews??

I know the Lifton in the USA has done a Y-DNA test, it shows that he is descended from the group 'PF5456', it states Roman/Phoenician dna?

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Lifton surname
« on: Monday 09 November 15 23:23 GMT (UK)  »
Since my last post here I am still stuck on the family history.

I been bought to the attention of the Listun (also prenounced Lisson/Liston) family of Bristol who seem to have links to Wales.
There are no actual records of this family name only in Church books. It appears that they were Baptists and Ministers.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Masons of Whitechapel
« on: Monday 09 November 15 15:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi I looked at the Mason family as my partners mums maiden name was Mason.

She descended from Robert G. Mason b.1819 (Josephs brother b. 1825)

This was in a text someone emailed me -
Who has done a really good search into the family :)

I think this is in relation to Joseph b. 1854 - Robert George died in 1889 aged 69. It was in fact 27/Jan/1899 and took place at 39, St Stephens Road, Bow. His son Joseph was present at the death. Cause of death is described as “Congestion of lungs and chronic bronchitis”. This was the same cause as his brother Edward and it begs the question...was the gun polishing trade subject to this cause? . However his standing in the Occupation column of the death certificate is stated as “Gentleman” so maybe he had retired by this time. The son Joseph was living in Leytonstone.

I noticed the Earlier Masons were Silkweavers.

On this file is a John Mason named as a former Fifth Monarchist radical

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CF0QFjAJahUKEwjQ9sDT4IPJAhWMmh4KHeYSBkc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brh.org.uk%2Fsite%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2FTHE-SPITALFIELDS-SILK-WEAVERS.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGq97bQqgxNJRz_w0ymUrd0aMsqZQ&sig2=8WU0_XSkNj396rus1iGtcg

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Davies family.
« on: Monday 17 February 14 13:42 GMT (UK)  »
My friend stated he was. No idea who his father was. mother was Edith Annie Davies. He was later adopted and then had the surname Greenfield.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Davies family.
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 23:03 GMT (UK)  »
Ronald died around 2011...

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Davies family.
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 22:57 GMT (UK)  »
I am doing family history for a friend.

Hope to find a Edith Annie Davies who was in the area of Pines, St Brelades.
She had a son Ronald Davies born around 1942.  (Don't know the fathers name)
My friend said he died in 2011.
He was then adopted by a family and took the surname Greenfield.
Later on his mother Edith Annie Davis ended up living in Gloucester, England.

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Lifton surname
« on: Sunday 13 October 13 23:12 BST (UK)  »
Chatting to a family member the other day, someone did a tree. They managed to get back to a Ginger Lifton then supposedly went quiet? I cant find this person anywhere. I know Ginger is another name for Virginia and the england colonists in usa name their first child this, apart from that cant find much else. The person who did this tree said we came from branch of 'Poco A Poco'Liston? Im keeping open minded at the moment. There was no mention of us being in pembrokeshire either.......

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Lifton surname
« on: Tuesday 10 September 13 17:38 BST (UK)  »
It would be really useful to have but unknown where it is currently at the moment! I remember word in the family we originated from the village of Devon? But i never seen the proof!

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