Don Stanton (TeeSquare@ecr.net) writes... > Was the original spelling of the name STAUNTON and later changed? > In 1966, my grandfather Harry Robert STANTON told me that his grandfather > changed the spelling of the name from european STAUNTON to an American > name of STANTON. Yes. The name of the family in England was Stauton. > What is the source of the information placing William Montgomery > STANTON as a decendent of Thomas STANTON? "A Record Genealogical, Biographical, Statistical, of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and His Descendants. 1635-1891", William A. Stanton, PH.D., D.D., Albany, NY, Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1891. > Also, my grandfather said he received an invitation to the Queen's > coronation in 1953, and I am trying to discover how he qualified > for such an invitation. There actually is a simple explanation for this. My family received one also and we displayed it on the mantel. It was an advertising promotion for Life magazine in the form of an actual invitation to Queen Elizabeth's coronation. That might have over the years turned into a family legend of an invite to the coronation. (sure fooled some of our neighbors at the time - smile). > Were any of the STANTON/STAUNTON ancestry honored with position of > Baronetcy? Perhaps someone else on the list can answer this. I have not spent much time at all on the English origins of the family - my focus has always been on the American descendants.