This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Sutton,' i.e. the south town, the south enclosure. The places so called are too numerous to mention. Lower says there are over sixty ecclesiastically marked districts, chapelries, and parishes in England of this name. Of course this does not include small manors and farms; compare Norton, Weston, Eaton, or Easton.

Johannes de Soutton, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Johannes de Sutton, 1379: ibid.

Symon de Sutton, 1379: ibid.

Geoffrey de Suttone, Huntingdonshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Saer de Sutton, Yorkshire, ibid.

Albinus de Sutton, Nottinghamshire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

1593. Married — Jeames Sutton and Margaret Bonnor: St. Dionis Backchurch.

From one of the many places named Sutton in England. Mariot de Sutton of Dumfriesshire rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, II, p. 198).

(English) belonging to Sutton, the Middle English Sutton(e, Anglo-Saxon Súðtún = the South Enclosure, Farmstead, or Village [Old English súð, súp + tun] Sutton, Surrey, occurs in a wholly Latin charter dated a.d. 727 ('Cart. Sax.’ no. 39) as "apud Suþtone.”

A toponymic, possibly from the Irish place-name. IF 19*

Place name in Southern and Central England. See also Sinton.

(English) One who came from Sutton (southern village or homestead), the name of many places in England.

In Anglo-Saxon charters Sud-tun-' the southern homestead or enclosure'-a name consequently of very common application. Besides single farms and minor divisions, there are more than sixty Suttons among the parishes and other civil and ecclesiastical districts of England. Heraldry also attests the commonness of the surname by more than fifty coats assigned to it. See Norton, Easton, and Weston.

Local. A town in Devonshire, England—the south town.

Thomas, founder of the Charter House, was son of Richard Sutton (who d. 1558), Steward of the Courts in Lincoln, and a tenant of the See of Lincoln (Bancroft, Life of S.). The family is armorially identified with the Suttons of Washingborough, &c., who descended from Hamon Sutton, living c. 1430, and Viscount of Lincoln, who bore the same arms (Harl. MS. 1550). These arms are entirely different from those of the Suttons of Holderness, and those of Dudley. We do not find the name of S. in Lincoln before 1270, when William de Sutton held part of a knight’s fee from Robert de Everingham (Testa, 324). Sutton appears to have been part of the fee held from Robert de Everingham and the see of York by Thomas Neville of Rigsby and Sutton (Testa, 331). John de Neville was father of the latter, and was also named John ‘de Rigsby and the above William de Sutton was son of Geoffry de Sutton living 1270; who was probably brother of John de Neville or Rigsby. This was one of the numerous Lincolnshire branches of th e Nevilles of Normandy.

A location name in Cheshire, Devon, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, etc.

Sutton. —Scattered about in different parts of England, and best represented in Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Norfolk, Kent, Wilts, etc. Sutton is a very common name of parishes, villages, etc., and probably the surname has been in nearly every case in the first place thus derived. We learn from the Hundred Rolls that six centuries ago the surname was numerous in Notts, Shropshire, Somerset, and also in Lincolnshire and Kent.