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    Quote Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
    Some other family names of mine that seem to be more American than British - Peyton
    Peyton is very English; not common in England though; American Peytons, at least from Virginia, are probably descendants of one Robert Peyton, who emigrated to Virginia by 1680; he was a grandson of Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet of Isleham. Edward Peyton's maternal grandfather was Sir Edward Osborne, who was Lord Mayor of London; his maternal grandmother Anne Hewett was daughter of Sir William Hewett who was also Lord Mayor. Edmund Hewett, father of Sir William, may be one of the most recent commoners from whom a very large descendancy among the Anglo diaspora can be traced--some of his descendants emigrated to New England, some to Maryland, some to Virginia (both Julia Dent Grant and Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee are descendants; so are F. Scott Fitzgerald and G. Gordon Liddy), and through Osborne he's ancestor of a fair chunk of the British peerage as well as the Queen through her mother, plus assorted and sundry people like Winston Churchill, David Cameron, and PG Wodehouse).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop View Post
    Peyton is very English; not common in England though; American Peytons, at least from Virginia, are probably descendants of one Robert Peyton, who emigrated to Virginia by 1680; he was a grandson of Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet of Isleham. Edward Peyton's maternal grandfather was Sir Edward Osborne, who was Lord Mayor of London; his maternal grandmother Anne Hewett was daughter of Sir William Hewett who was also Lord Mayor. Edmund Hewett, father of Sir William, may be one of the most recent commoners from whom a very large descendancy among the Anglo diaspora can be traced--some of his descendants emigrated to New England, some to Maryland, some to Virginia (both Julia Dent Grant and Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee are descendants; so are F. Scott Fitzgerald and G. Gordon Liddy), and through Osborne he's ancestor of a fair chunk of the British peerage as well as the Queen through her mother, plus assorted and sundry people like Winston Churchill, David Cameron, and PG Wodehouse).
    That's pretty impressive. I'm afraid I lack a good bit of paperwork to take me back that far, though. It does seem most of the Virginia Peytons are related.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Creoda View Post
    I also have Myatt in my ancestry from the 19th century (my maternal side is from North Staffordshire).
    Then we're almost certainly related, probably within the last 12-15 generations if not more recently (I can trace my Myatts back to a Mayott who died in 1631; the last born in England departed for America in the 1740's). There was a Y-DNA project looking at bearers of the surnames "Meates" and "Mates" in Ireland that found they matched Myatts from Staffordshire and the USA, with all being descended from a common ancestor, see here (but then I've seen it estimated that everyone of specifically English ancestry is likely related within the degree of 20th cousin or closer).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop View Post
    Then we're almost certainly related, probably within the last 12-15 generations if not more recently (I can trace my Myatts back to a Mayott who died in 1631; the last born in England departed for America in the 1740's). There was a Y-DNA project looking at bearers of the surnames "Meates" and "Mates" in Ireland that found they matched Myatts from Staffordshire and the USA, with all being descended from a common ancestor, see here (but then I've seen it estimated that everyone of specifically English ancestry is likely related within the degree of 20th cousin or closer).
    Great stuff, thanks for that.

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