- William Oxdon and Mary Newcomb-
1 William Oxdon and Mary Newcomb
William Oxdon is said to have been one of two brothers who came from
England and settled in Gloucester, Essex County Massachusetts
about
1766.
William Oxden -> Henry Newcombe Oxton ->
Henry Oxton -> Sanford
Leforest Oxton -> Alfred Josiah Oxton -> Roy
Gordon Oxton -> Alfred
John Oxton
[Thanks to Ken Kalloch for the links to the Kalloch
Family pages of those Oxton family members.]
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Even more detail on the names in the tree
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If you have any OXTONs in your family tree I'd like to know more about
them.
Please write to me.
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What's in a name?
The name OXTON means "A place to keep oxen." A "ton" in
this
case is like a pound, as in dog pound.
I have located several villages in Britian by the name
OXTON. One is a wee bit east of Sherwood Forest and it once was within
the bounds of Sherwood. Another is in Merseyside near Liverpool while a
very small OXTON is near York. One I have not visited is near the
border
with Scotland.
Another line of reason has it that OXTON derives
from
OAKS TOWN. There are several variations on both names: OXEN, OXDON,
(interchange
any O or E to A and you end up with an alphabet soup of surnames),
OAKESTOWN,
YOCKSTON, YOXEN...
The SOUNDEX code for OXTON is O235 and is the same
for
several of the most common variations. Any name with the same Soundex
is
something worth knowing about.
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