Gaston Family History
Gaston Name Meaning
French: from the Old French oblique case of a Germanic personal
name, originally probably a byname from gasti ‘stranger’,
‘guest’, ‘host’. Compare Guest. The surname is also found in
England and Ireland, where it is probably a Huguenot importation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gaston
Name Distribution of Gaston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gaston families
 125 - 248  42 - 124 |
 1 - 41  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gaston families
|
20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gaston census records
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Gaston Family Origin
Gaston Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gaston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gaston census records
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Military Service by Gaston
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