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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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