Duston Family History

English:: habitational name for someone from Duston in Northamptonshire named in Old English with dus ‘mound’ or dūst ‘dust’ + tūn ‘settlement farmstead’. perhaps a shortened form of Dustinton from Distington in Cumberland recorded as Distingtona and Dustinton in the early 13th century named from an obscure first element (possibly a Old English personal name) + tūn ‘settlement farmstead’. shortened variant of Dunstan . from the Anglo-Norman Anglo-Scandinavian and Middle English personal name Thurstan from Old Norse Thórsteinn composed of the name of the god Thórr (see Thor ) + steinn ‘stone rock’ hence meaning ‘altar of Thor’ or perhaps ‘hammer of Thor’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022