Scott Shenton
This Site presents genealogical material on several parallel lines of the Shenton family, based on the Reunion software offered by Leister Productions, Inc. The lines are currently unconnected. Four of the lines go back to about 1700 in England: Nathanial Shenton (born about 1699 in Leicestershire), Thomas (married in 1720 in Derbyshire), William (born about 1650, possibly in Staffordshire), and John (born about 1765, probably in Lancashire). The Nathanial line is my own, and the Thomas, William and John lines have been developed by other researchers who have kindly agreed to let me publish their lines here, hopefully to the benefit of all of us. The fifth line represents some of the Shentons who emigrated (presumably from England) to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, starting with William Shenton, first noted in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1679. This line is, initially, based solely on the published research efforts of Delmarva Roots, of Lewes, Delaware, by their kind permission. To provide a single structure for a database and web site which supports all lines - which, hopefully, will eventually be merged into a single line - I have created an "Ancestral Shenton" as the hypothetical ancestor of all these lines.
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Hot List of all Surnames |
Hot Index of all Individuals, by Surname |
Descendant Charts (several JPEGs) |
Citation of all Sources |
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Paper on Captain John Shenton |
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The purpose of this site is to offer information on Shenton family history in a structured format, and act as a stimulus for other Shenton researchers. I welcome any and all inputs and assistance, especially in connecting these lines - and other Shenton lines - and tracing them back further in time. Except for on-going efforts between updates of the web site, I plan to publish here everything I have. I try, not always successfully, to do a full update of the web site every few months. Additionally, I dedicate a lot of effort in researching, documenting and "sourcing" as much as possible, to weed out the unsubstantiated "family lore" and replace it with documented facts wherever possible.
Site navigation guides: click on "parent" or "child" name to move up or down in the family; click on underscored husband/wife name to display the appropriate Person Sheet; click on superscript number in Person Sheet to display the source citation.
Additions to this site since 11 Feb 2008 (Report 034) have taken somewhat of a back seat to my efforts on the Shenton One-Name Study effort. The major change has been an expansion of the Thomas line, based heavily on the aggressive research of a correspondent who has confirmed several additional children to John Shenton (abt 1720) and Elizabeth Chawner. This also helped to resolve an old issue of the origin of Chawner and/or Choloner in the Thomas line - both are valid surnames of ancestors in the line. There are about 35 new individual entries (latest is 1488); new sources included in this report are 308-336.
The Shenton One-Name Study is a separate and distinct effort based on the Shentons enumerated in the UK Censuses of 1841-1901. Malcolm Street and I are well into a project to publish the names and data on every Shenton in those Censuses, and - to the maximum extent possible - expand and link the people and households across the Census decades and the family generations. There are approximately 12,000 Shenton enumerations in the seven Census reports, so this is a massive undertaking. We have completed the first pass of all counties for 1851, and are working primarily on all years of Staffordshire. While the end result will be a help in my and Malcolm's individual research efforts, it should be a very significant resource for anyone conducting research on Shentons of England. We're using a new web site specifically for this effort: Shenton - One Name Study. At this time, we have over 2,700 Shentons on the site; some are "connected" and extended across the Census years and some remain to be addressed. Wish us luck and we welcome comments and especially contributions.
Yet another Shenton genealogy research effort is the establishment of the Shenton Y-DNA Surname Project. See the link above for information, links to the detailed web site, and information on how to participate. Come jump into the Gene Pool ! Volunteers are Needed !
Sad to say, the long-discussed "Shentons of the Eastern Shore of Maryland" effort and been put back on the shelf (possibly to live another day) due to lack of available collaborators.
The source for all the initial data on the 'fourth line" - the Shentons of colonial Maryland - was extracted from the book "Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland", Volume 13, published by Colonial Roots (formerly Delmarva Roots) of Lewes, Delaware, USA, which contains about ten pages of data on Shenton/Shinton records. The authors - Henry C. Peden and F. Edward Wright - have kindly granted permission for me to publish the extracts, which hopefully will become the base of an extended line. Colonial Roots researches and publishes quite an array of data on colonial era Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania - check their website. If you note any errors of omission or commission in this fourth line, please notify me -- I can determine if there was an error in my transcription or something of which the authors should be aware.
As with many genealogical efforts, I have made extensive use of the resources of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, both on-line through FamilySearch.org and by microfilm and microfiche at the local Family History Center. While no exact printouts or downloads are presented in this site, some material in this site is reprinted or extracted by permission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In granting permission for this use of copyrighted material, the Church does not imply endorsement or authorization of this website.
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