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The preston Surname

preston Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English preost ‘priest’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the meaning may have been either ‘village with a priest’ or ‘village held by the Church’.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from Presto(u)n, now Craigmillar, in Midlothian. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.

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

Distribution of preston Families in the US in 1920
Number of preston families
 322-641
 108-321		 1-107
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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