Boston Family History
Boston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the place in Lincolnshire, the
name of which means ‘Botwulf’s stone’. This has been considered to
refer to St. Botulf, and to be the site of the monastery that he built
in the 7th century, but it is more likely that the Botwulf of the
place name was an ordinary landowner, and that the association with
the saint was a later development because of the name.Probably an
altered spelling of German Basten and perhaps
Bastian.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Boston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boston families
 148 - 293  50 - 147 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boston families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boston Family Origin
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Boston Family Occupations
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