Winston Family History

Winston Name Meaning

English: from an Old English personal name composed of the elements wynn ‘joy’ + stan ‘stone’.English: habitational name from any of various places called Winston or Winstone, from various Old English personal names + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, or, in the case of Winstone in Gloucestershire, Old English stan ‘stone’.Americanized form of Jewish Weinstein.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Name Distribution of Winston Families

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England & Wales

Scotland

Number of Winston families

54 - 105

19 - 53

1 - 18

from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

Number of Winston families

4 - 5

2 - 3

from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Winston Family Origin

England (25)

Ireland (14)

Great Britain (4)

Monmouthshire (2)

England,Great Britain (2)

Germany (1)

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Winston Family Occupations

from 1881 UK Census Data

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Thread	Author	Replies
Robert Bruce Winston Sr. -Syracruse, NY	silverwood00	1
Winstons from County Roscommon		24
Walter L. Winston Jr., 73, born in Philadelphia, son of Eunice E. (Washington) Green and the late Walter L. Winston Sr.	KENNELLYMARKA	0
Morrie Winston		3
Claiborne WINSTON b c1842 VA		6
Benjamin C. Winston lived in S.E. Missouri		2
Jordan Winston	piper965	0
ELIZABETH WINSTON: England, Virginia	new5555	19
Seeking names of siblings of MAJ. JOSEPH WINSTON of Kings Mtn. fame		11
David C. Winston & Martha Ann Bragg, Franklin Co., NC	pmm4328	2

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