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ABOUT LIFFITON.NETWelcome to Liffiton Family History at www.liffiton.net. This site explores history related to the Liffiton surname. It is intended to engender pride and interest in the people who have been known by the Liffiton name and to encourage the research and writing of family history. For the beginning of 2006, Liffiton Family History features six Liffiton ice hockey players. Click on the hockey link on the left side of this page to get their stories and see their statistics and photos. The Liffiton List alphabetically identifies all known Liffitons by year of birth and death when known. The archive link lists and leads to past articles which have been featured at www.liffiton.net. Join the Liffiton Family History mailing list. Send an e-mail with "subscribe" as the subject to liffiton@qwest.net, and you will be notified of the posting of new articles. Don't worry, you will not be flooded with e-mail.
ABOUT THE LIFFITON NAMEThe earliest documented use of Liffiton is the 1758 baptismal record of Richard Liffiton, son of Jane Liffiton, of Kingswear Parish. Kingswear is located on the southeast coast of Devonshire, England. The Liffiton surname is derived from Liverton and Leviton, names used by Jane Liffiton's husband. However, her husband appears not to have been the father of Jane's children, so a blood link between Liffiton and Liverton has not been established. For further details, see the the story of Jane Nowell, "the first Liffiton," found in the Archive section. Liverton, Leviton, and Liffiton are variations of Leverton. Mr. Stuart Roberts of St. Austell in Cornwall, England, the leading researcher and authority on Leverton and its variations, has traced the Devon and Cornish Leverton variations to Livaton in South Tawton Parish, near Okehampton, Devonshire. The Subsidy Rolls for South Tawton for the year 1332, record the name of John de Lyuaton (John of Lyvaton). The last of the Liffiton line in England, Harry Chamberlain Liffiton, died in Sudbury, Suffolk in 1963. All Liffiton people now living (located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States) trace their connection to Harry's ancestors, Jane and Richard Liffiton, through two families which emigrated in the mid-19th Century from England. In 1849, the George Liffiton family of London settled in Montreal, Canada. In 1856, the Thomas Huntley Liffiton family left their home in Littleham at Exmouth, Devonshire, for New Zealand where they settled in Wanganui, on North Island. Copyright 1992 - 2006 Thomas Liffiton |