Baston Family History
- Baston Name Meaning
- French and English: from Old French bastun ‘stick’, hence a nickname for a person of authority, an officious person, or perhaps for a beadle or verger. English: habitational name from Baston in Lincolnshire, named with the Old Norse personal name Bak + Old English tun ‘farmstead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Baston families
 101 - 200  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Baston families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Baston census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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