Whiston Family History
Whiston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Whiston. Examples in Merseyside (formerly in Lancashire) and South
Yorkshire are named from Old English hwit ‘white’ +
stan ‘stone’, while one in Staffordshire is from the
genitive case of an unattested Old English personal name Witi
meaning ‘white’ + Old English tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. Another place of the same name, in Northamptonshire, was
probably named as the settlement associated with the Hwicce,
the name of an Old English tribe.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whiston
Name Distribution of Whiston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whiston families
 110 - 218  37 - 109 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whiston families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Whiston Family Origin
Whiston Emigration Information (US)
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Whiston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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