Please remove my name from this list Bonnie F. LaGalle 316-365-3834 ----- Original Message ----- From: "LaChance" <lachance@ccis.com> To: <SURNAME-ORIGINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] STATON > STATON, STATEN (English) Dweller on the homestead where there was a > wharf or boat-landing place. > > Also, I would look into the possibility that the name could be a > corruption of: > \ STANTON (English) One who came from Stanton (homestead on stoney > ground). It is the name of many places in England. Another reference > to stones in at least two cases is their proximity to prehistoric stone > monuments. The name has also sometimes been chosen by Ashkenazic Jews > as an Anglicization of like-sounding Jewish surnames. > ---Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by Elsdon, C. Smith. > Barbara > > WFstaton10@aol.com wrote: > > >Please check the origin and meaning of STATON. > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >