Is this possible?

[Redroger]

Linda, the earliest STanton that I have in my tree is Edmund Stanton b before 1545, the father of Edmund Stanton who was born a Morton by Bourne Lincs 14 December 1567. I am in the process of developing an extensive treeof this family as they are the direct maternal ancestors of my paternal grandmother. If you can give me some names of your earliest Stantons I will see if their ancestors could have come from my Lincolnshire line.

[Linda_J]

Hi Lexi and Redroger

Lexi long time no see! and many thanks for the links.

Redroger, the earliest Stanton that we have is William who was born 1719 and died at Presteigne in 1808 and a probated will of that date and his death announcement in the newspaper.
We do not know much more about him other than his father was also William who apparently died about 1721.

Linda

[Redroger]

So far, and remember I am still transcribing and listing, I have only one William Stanton, b1580 South Somercotes, Lincs.His wife was Margaret Benson, they had 4 known children, Alice and Ann, and Clement and Ralph. So far I have found no death details for any of the children, or for that matter the parents. So who knows?

[Redroger]

Should have said that my 2great grandfather joined the Somerset Militia in 1793 as a trumpeter aged 16, but that was the militia not the army, and a trumpeter not a drummer.