Stonestreet Family History

English (Sussex): from Middle English stan ston ‘stone’ (Old English stān) + stret(e) ‘street Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a Roman or paved road or habitational from a place so named such as Stone Street (Kent Suffolk).

Early bearers in Sussex are presumably associated with the Roman road from London Bridge to Colchester known from the medieval period as Stane Street and those in Essex with the Roman road from Braughing (Hertfordshire) to Colchester (Essex) also called Stane Street.

Americanized form (translation into English) of German Steinstrass a topographic name for someone living on a paved street or a Roman street or a habitational name from a place so named in the Rhineland.