Harston Family History
- Harston Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places so called in Cambridgeshire and Leicestershire, or from Harleston in Suffolk or Harlestone in Northamptonshire. The first was named in Old English possibly with an unattested personal name Herel + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the second is from har ‘gray’ (or possibly ‘boundary’) + stan ‘stone’. The two last were both named with the Old English personal name Heoruwulf (or Herewulf) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,571 Historical Documents with Harston on Ancestry
- 14,665 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,930 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,008 Military Records
- 1,094 Immigration Records
- 15,874 Member Trees
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Number of Harston families
 52 - 102  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harston families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Harston census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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