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swanston Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from a place near Edinburgh, probably named with the genitive case of the Old English byname Swan ‘swain’ (or the personal name Swan) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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swanston Family Facts

Distribution of swanston Families in the US in 1920
Number of swanston families
 8-14
 3-7
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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