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Hi,
As I am new to the list I'll give a bit of background as to why I joined.
I have been trying to trace my Claxton ancestry back beyond Thomas Claxton,
my great great grandfather, who would have been born sometime around 1804 in
England but to date have encountered a brick wall in establishing his
parentage. So back in the summer I decided to undergo a genealogy DNA test,
specifically on the parental gene, and joined an American Genealogy project
dedicated to establishing their Claxton origins of which a number had been
traced back to England. Eventually the results of the test came through
which indicated I have no connection with the American Claxton gene pool but
to the gene pool of the Claytons. It now seems that sometime in the past my
Claxton's antecedence name changed from its original Clayton - only one
letter difference but it has meant having to start afresh as previously I
had limited myself to researching the name Claxton. Of course what I don't
know is when or, indeed, why the name changed.
I had no success in tracing any official records for Thomas Claxton prior to
his marriage in 1832 where Thomas's signature, in the Parish Register of
South Ockendon, Essex, is clearly Claxton. He was a blacksmith by trade and
after the birth of their first son, William, they moved to Canterbury, Kent.
His wife died there in 1849 and shortly after the remaining family members
returned to South Ockendon where Thomas died in March 1851.
If there are any list members who have Claytons in the Essex area around the
beginning of the 1800s I would be interested to hear from you.
Andy Claxton