Colston Family History
- Colston Name Meaning
- from a Middle English personal name, Colstan, which is probably from Old Norse Kolsteinn, composed of the elements kol ‘charcoal’ + steinn ‘stone’. habitational name from Colston Basset in Nottinghamshire, or the nearby Car Colston, both of which seem to have originally been named from the Old Norse personal name Kolr + Old English tun ‘settlement’. The first syllable of Car Colson was originally the defining prefix kirk ‘church’. habitational name from Coulston in Wiltshire, which is named with the genitive case of an Old English personal name Cufel (diminutive of Cufa) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 157,661 Historical Documents with Colston on Ancestry
- 44,160 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 24,540 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,397 Military Records
- 2,258 Immigration Records
- 82,306 Member Trees
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Number of Colston families
 54 - 105  19 - 53 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colston families
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27 - 52 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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- England (39)
- Scotland (12)
- Ireland (10)
- Great Britain (4)
- France (2)
- Mobile,United States of America (1)
from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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