Standish Family History
Standish Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire (now part of
Greater Manchester), so named from Old English stan ‘stone’
+ edisc ‘pasture’. There is another place so named in
Gloucestershire, but it does not seem to be the source of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Standish Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Standish families
 152 - 301  51 - 151 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Standish Family Origin
Standish Emigration Information (US)
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Standish Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Standish
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