Hastings Family History
Hastings Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from Hastings, a place
in Sussex, on the south coast of England, near which the English army
was defeated by the Normans in 1066. It is named from Old English
H?stingas ‘people of H?sta’. The surname was taken to
Scotland under William the Lion in the latter part of the 12th
century. It also assimilated some instances of the native Scottish
surname Harestane (see Hairston).English: variant
of Hasting.Irish (Connacht): shortened Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó hOistín ‘descendant of Oistín’, the
Gaelic form of Augustine (see Austin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hastings Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hastings families
 257 - 511  86 - 256 |
 1 - 85  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hastings families
|
91 - 179 31 - 90 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hastings Family Origin
Hastings Emigration Information (US)
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Hastings Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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