Keniston Family History
- Keniston Name Meaning
- English: possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, most likely in Dorset or Somerset, where the surname occurs most frequently. Alternatively, it may be from the Old English personal name Cynestan.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 42,823 Historical Documents with Keniston on Ancestry
- 15,235 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,274 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,866 Military Records
- 571 Immigration Records
- 16,877 Member Trees
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Number of Keniston families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keniston census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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