Thurston Family History
Thurston Name Meaning
from a medieval personal name, Old Norse
þórsteinn, composed of the elements þórr,
name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) +
steinn ‘stone’, ‘rock’, hence ‘altar of Thor’ or perhaps
‘hammer of Thor’.habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so
called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name
þóri (see Thor) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Thurston
Name Distribution of Thurston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thurston families
 261 - 520  88 - 260 |
 1 - 87  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thurston families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Thurston Family Origin
Thurston Emigration Information (US)
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Thurston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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