Lifton surname

[wingtuns20]

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!

[wingtuns20]

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.......

[wingtuns20]

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.

[notfil]

I am also descended from the Hubberston Liftons.  We have an oral history that was passed down to me that the Liftons were Jews who came to England from Flanders with a group of weavers. I wasn't told a date.  Weavers from Flanders moved to the UK over quite a long period of historic time and records show that these groups included Jews. The surname Lifton is a variant of Levitan that occurs in Lithuania and Poland.

[wingtuns20]

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?

[wingtuns20]

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.