Ruston Family History
Ruston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places so named,
for example in Norfolk, North Yorkshire, and East Yorkshire. The two
villages of this name in Norfolk are recorded in Domesday Book as
Ristuna, and are from Old English hris ‘brushwood’ +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; Ruston Parva in East
Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Roreston, is named from
the genitive case of the Old Norse byname Hrór meaning
‘vigorous’ + Old English tun. Ruston in North Yorkshire is
Rostune in Domesday Book, apparently from Old English
hrost ‘roost’, ‘roof’ + tun, referring to a
building with an unusual roof.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ruston
Name Distribution of Ruston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ruston families
 170 - 337  57 - 169 |
 1 - 56  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ruston families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ruston Family Origin
Ruston Emigration Information (US)
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Ruston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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