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charleston Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic (with intrusive -t-) from the personal name Charles. The various places called Charleston are all of recent origin, so they are unlikely to be the source of the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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charleston Family Facts

Distribution of charleston Families in the US in 1920
Number of charleston families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 27 - Messages: 77
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Myrtle Charleston outofthebox11 0
ray and rosalie charleston vicky charleston resz 6
My Search For Other Family babeyl 2
The Charleston Family U.S.A Thomas Charleston jr 13
Pennsylvania Charleston's MDC105 3
Frank Charleston, b. 1856 in Sweden BasketLady420 0
Henry & Ella Charleston Bastrup, LA vernita33 0
Looking for Relatives Betty-Charleston-Davis 8
Charleston family St Erth Cornwall sussexwurzel 0
CHARLESTON St. Erth, Cornwall -> Newcastle, Australia Marcel Safier 4
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