Hi Vivian, There are no Sharptons in the ONS database. http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php This is an extract of an Office of National Statistics database, and contains a list of surnames in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Mann in September 2002. I can find no entries in Free BMD. There are some entries in the Censuses but, without looking at all of them, I suspect they could be wrongly transcribed, and could be Sharpson, Sharpston, or Sharpstone. There are no people called Sharpton in the UK on the 2003 Uk-Info Disk which is based on the 2001 full electoral Roll. Stan Mapstone