Alston Family History
Alston Name Meaning
from the Middle English personal name Alstan,
which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal
names: Æ{dh}elstan ‘noble stone’, Ælfstan
‘elf stone’, Ealdstan ‘old stone’, or Ealhstan
‘altar stone’.habitational name from any of various places called
Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in
Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in
Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Scandinavian personal name
Halfdan, these place names all consist of an Old English
personal name + Old English tun ‘settlement’, for example
Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Alston
Name Distribution of Alston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Alston families
 393 - 784  132 - 392 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Alston families
|
133 - 264 45 - 132 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Alston Family Origin
Alston Emigration Information (US)
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Alston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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