Swanston Family History
Swanston Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Edinburgh, probably
named with the genitive case of the Old English byname Swan
‘swain’ (or the personal name Swan) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Swanston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swanston families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swanston families
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70 - 138 24 - 69 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Swanston census records
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Swanston Family Origin
Swanston Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Swanston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Swanston
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