Edmiston Family History
- Edmiston Name Meaning
- Scottish: habitational name from Edmonstone, near Edinburgh, so named from the Old English personal name Eadmund (see Edmond) + tun ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 149,013 Historical Documents with Edmiston on Ancestry
- 36,588 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,034 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,615 Military Records
- 2,785 Immigration Records
- 76,991 Member Trees
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Number of Edmiston families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Edmiston families
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79 - 155 27 - 78 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Edmiston census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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