Blackton Surname

Blackton Family Members:

Attempting to find more Blacktons: there are none in the 1851 Census around Deptford, or indeed London apart from a family from Ireland in St Pancras. Pallots Marriage Index however has the following: sisters of Sophia?

• 1810, St Paul, Deptford, Mary (Ann) Blackton married William Taylor
• 1799, St. Paul, Deptford, Ezth Blackton married George Garrard
• A Jane Grace Blackton also married William Bagarmie (or Begarmie) in 1810 in St Matthew Bethnal Green

Communication from Chris: "There was a large family of Blakestone's at Rochester & Chatham ( family of Christopher Blakestone & Elizabeth Lydia Bradley) in the 1700's. By 1800 many of them spelt the name Blackiston. There was also a Jane Blackstone bn at Chatham in 1800 d of Francis & Jane"

There is also this transcript from a trial in the Old Bailey, 3rd Dec 1800, where there is a "Bow Street Officer" called William Blackton:
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_sessions/T18001203.html

Origins and Meaning

Chris Atkinson relates the surname to other variations on his website: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.atkinson700/docs/  

Blackton Web Resources

• Rootsweb's Blackton message board only has 4 entries.

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Created by: Sam Edwards, 2006.
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