Researching Percy Sutton
Dig into the past of Percy Sutton using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
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The name Percy means "Form of PERCIVAL. Piercing the Valley" and is of French origin.
Records of Percy Sutton on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Percy Sutton and the Sutton Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sutton Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sutton family tree.
Search Parish Records for Percy Sutton at Find My Past.
Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Percy Sutton using the FreeBMD database.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 24723 people with the Sutton surname in the UK? Sutton is now ranked number 205 for popularity in the UK. |
Sutton Family Tree Databases
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Find Percy Sutton from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Sutton Forums
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Miscellaneous Sutton Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Percy Sutton. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Percy Sutton
Percy Sutton
Percy Ellis Sutton (November 24, 1920 – December 26, 2009) was an American political and business leader. An activist in the Civil Rights Movement and lawyer, he was also a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X. He was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
Source: Percy Sutton, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Sutton
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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